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LIFE force; 



An Original Work of Advanced Scientific 
on World-Bui Idimj and Life-ProduGifli: 



The Origin ; >f Man by Spontaneous Generation- 
Explained Away— The Cause of Growth 
and Decay — Zodiacal Construction of ' 
Brain ; According to 



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FKOF. P. A. GRAVES. ASTROLOGER 



SAN FRANCISCO: 

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Copyright secured by P. A Graves. 1896. All right- reserved 



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PREFACE. 



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''Man, that is born of woman, is of few daj-s and full of trouble; 
he cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down; he Heeth like 
a shadow, and continueth not." 

This volume is the product of many years of 
careful study and intense mental labor, under the 
most trying circumstances possible for an author to 
be placed, being without home, money, sympathy or 
assistance in the self-imposed task; besides a strong 
opposition to encounter at almost every step has had 
the effect to delay its publication. 

But financial embarrassment has been the im- 
peeding force and the delaying power, since having 
been compelled to go forth each clay to work for bread, 
and writing only when not driven to earn food, and 
that too in the most depressed financial condition 
ever known to the people of the far west. 

These, together with a helpless family of mother- 
less children offered no assistance to the circumstances 
above mentioned. 

In the face of these facts it would be a surprise 
to the author if the book was more commendable 
than otherwise, and though it is far inferior to what 
the author intended it should be, it is nevertheless all 
the circumstances would permit. It ought to have 
been through the press three years earlier, but owing 
to the above named circumstances it has been delayed. 



8 PREFACE. 

I have tried to enlist the attention of all classes, from 
the millionaire down to the servant girl of ebon hue ? 
but failed in each and every attempt. 

I tried nearly, if not quite all of the printers 
south of Sacramento to San Diego, California, but 
always met with the same kind of encouragement , 
which was: to try some one else, which I did. I even 
wrote East with no better success; but I made up my 
mind in the beginning that it took all these mild 
ingredients to make up the awful dose of disappoint- 
ments, which has in the past, and still must be taken 
by all those, who are foolish enough to try to 
introduce a new idea to the world. I think it is 
pretty nearly true what a gentleman in San Francisco 
once remarked concerning new ideas; that is, that 
it cost 40,000 dollars and required two generations 
to get a new idea before the American people. In 
view of this fact I concluded to write for future 
generations, and let the book bide its time, for money 
I have none, and $40,000 friends are not hovering 
conveniently near with stringless sacks and bursting 
with fullness? The foregoing are all of the apologies I 
have to offer to the considerate reader. 

But some of my sj^mpathizing friends have 
hinted that they would like to add a word of apology 
to my own, for no other reason than to explain that 
I do not rush to the popular trough, drink with the 
herd and bellow for coin. 

But as that would be a very unnatural pleasure 
for me to enjoy, I must deem all such apologies out 



PREFACE. 9 

of place. Had I consulted public opinion this book 
would never have been written. And now it is too 
late to join the popular procession, however pleasant 
and profitable it might be to myself and others. 

I respect public as well as private opinions when 
they are right, but I entertain no respect for volun- 
tary slavery in religion, henchmen in politics, nor 
sycophants in science. I have a profound regard for 
truth, but no respect for falsehood nor deception. 
I reverence no doctrine, dogma, subject nor science, 
because some one else did or does. I only admire 
them for the truth they embrace. I object to wrong 
whereever I find it, and accept nothing on authority. 
No man is so good or great, that I fear to criticise 
his errors, nor so bad that I cannot accept the good 
he offers. We are only mortals at best, ruled by the 
same natural laws, differing only in intensity. 

There is no royal name nor blood, 
That men should love or fear, 
But royal deeds above the clouds 
Should make their memory dear. 

A physician once remarked that it was a daring 
tiling to do, to question the authority of the old 
teachers on physiological questions. I replied, that 
it required no special degree of courage to oppose an 
error after it has been proven one, that only cowards 
feared to speak in behalf of truth. 

Books are too often written, not to defend truth 
nor to advance the cause of humanity, but to catch 
dollars. I test all metals in my crucible and try them 
as silver is tried. If I am in error on any point in 



10 PREFACE. 

this profound philosophy, the reader may be doubly 
assured that it was not maliciously nor superstitiously 
obtained, for I never possessed a pet idea that I 
could not release from the cage of my fancy in a 
moments warning, if necessary. 

I sometimes advance ideas w T hich I cannot sup- 
port excetp in a logical way, but I make no asser- 
tions to-day, that I fear may be overthrown to- 
morrow, but in case I should, I will thank the one 
who does the kindly act. 

I am awake to the fact, that world-building 
and life-creating is not a safe nor sure business to 
engage in during this age. It would do for Moses and 
other speculative minds to attempt such hazardous 
things in other days when people were imbued with 
faith and strangers to the facts of nature. 

But in a scientific age like this, when the mental 
status is reversed and facts come first, the prospect 
for success in gaining public recognition is not so 
flattering as formerly. Nevertheless I am going to 
launch a theory on the turbid waters of chance, and 
try its powers of endurance in weathering the storms 
of criticisms from scientific elements. 

I beg no points, nor ask for charity; my work is 
open to criticism. 

If it is too weak to withstand the buffets of the 
breakers, it must succumb to their fury, and be dashed 
to pieces on the rock bound shore of the sea of science. 
The reader will learn, before advancing very far in 
the perusal of this work, that the author is not a 



PREFACE. 11 

Darwinian evolutionist, but a spontaneous produe- 
tionist, and bases his philosophy on the proposition 
that man originally was and now is a product of 
nature's laws, which are executed by the heavenly 
bodies, and that they created him in his present form, 
and not through the unknown laws of evolution, nor 
in the image of his ''maker". Moreover, the great 
laws which created him must necessarily rule, and 
sustain him from his coming on till his going off of 
the stage of action. 

The author also claims for the same laws the 
power to create species. 

If they can create a single form of life, they can 
create many forms, since it is only necessary for 
them to create a nucleus in order to create any 
form of life. If they could create a single nucleus 
they could create many more. If more, their power 
is scarcely limited. 

The creation of a nucleus is all the difficulty 
there is attending the creation of any and all forms 
of life; and since they can be created with ease and 
accuracy evolution is unnecessary. 

Dissecting the human body, and separating it 
into its primary parts, as they were put together by 
the zoadical forces, may be regarded by some as 
hazardous and uncertain work. But the reader can 
better judge the merits of the point in question after 
he has finished the book. 

The attempt to disprove the immortality of 
man will doubtless meet with more opposition than 



12 PREFACE. 

all other questions involved in the text; for few, if 
any, wish to believe that they will not be permitted to 
hear the glad notes of Gabriel's sounding horn when 
the day arrives for the grave to give up its dead, and 
the angry sea to disgorge its many victims, that all 
shall " come forth to be judged of the deeds done in 
the body ", and each assigned to his place on the right 
or left as the case may be, there to remain forever. 

Of my own choice I would deprive no one of the 
innocent pleasure of witnessing his neighbor's sentence 
to everlasting punishment by the stern command of 
the tenderhearted dispenser of justice. 

" Depart ye accursed into the everlasting fire, pre- 
pared for the devil and his angels ". Nor would I 
deprive him of receiving his own reward of everlasting 
life for his own good works: "Well done, good and 
faithful servant; enter into the joys of thy lord. " 

But from necessity I must judge the result of the 
created from the character of the creator, and not from 
a personal opinion as to what should be the result 
according to my own yiews of justice. It matters not 
to her what man believes or hopes for; whether creat- 
ing or destroying, nature executes her laws to the 
letter on all occasions. We only deceive ourselves by 
building contrary to her mandates. 

It has been said that because man is a worshipping 
animal he has a creator to worship and a soul to save. 
But, dear reader, when you reflect that his desire to 
lie to his friends, slander his neighbor, steal from the 
unsuspecting, starve and torture his fellows, and 



PREFACE. 13 

murder the innocent, is greater than his desire to 
worship his supposed creator, the former argument 
fades away into insignificance. 

If one passion is divine then all must be. If one 
talent is Godgiven then all of them are. But as a 
matter of fact man has but a meager desire to worship 
anything but gold. Modern worship is mostly formal — 
little faith and less sincerity, and executed by a force 
of practice, usually for a purpose; therefore, there is 
no weight to the argument. 

I will doubtless find myself homeless among the 
medical fraternity, because no one likes to have his 
business assailed; but falsehood must be sifted out 
of science regardless of individual desires or personal 
interests. 

If I were writing in my own financial interest 
this would be a very different book. I would write 
lies to please, romance to flatter, and falsehoods for 
effect; for that would catch the masses ; for rugged 
scientific truth, stern and piercing, can be rel- 
ished only by the wise. Facts are alone for the 
freighted brain, and these are vastly in the minority; 
in these I trust for the success of this book. 

I will now introduce the reader to " Stellar Dust," 
with the modest request that he, or she, read under- 
standing^, without prejudice: weigh the arguments 
with care and judge according to the evidence adduced; 
then he or she will have done all an honest author 
could ask of an intelligent reader. 



INTRODUCTION. 

In a former volume, entitled "Evolution and 
Reproduction", which I published in 1889. was 
explained many points of interest in connection with 
this new philosophy, but after seven years of careful 
study I found it very imperfect. I therefore concluded 
to give to the public a more complete rendering of the 
subject, and to it add some of the most important 
points laid down in the former volume, since I cannot 
now tell when I shall have another edition published. 
And though I have been an enthusiastic student of 
Astrology for nearly a quarter of a century, yet I 
find no limit to the field of investigation, open to the 
untrammeled mind that can unfettered roam through 
nature's fields, blossoming with everlasting truths. 
I have an abiding confidence in the intuition of the 
human mind, notwithstanding its finite powers to 
unfold many of nature's most subtle secrets, which 
have hitherto been unrevealed to man, not only in 
connection with this world, but with the universe of 
systems. When philosophers, scientists and learned 
men extend their researches out into nature's open, 
broad and free fields, which is becoming a scientific 
mind, instead of ignoring the great universal natural 
laws, because they are called astrology and because a 
certain class of people have arrayed their forces against 
it to frown it down, then they may expect to 



INTRODUCTION. 15 

accomplish results in proportion to the efforts put 
forth. But so long as they study effects beneath their 
feet in searching for the laws which produce them, 
just so long will they be wandering in the unproduc- 
tive dessert of thought, all barren of results and 
finally fall by the wayside, unrewarded for their toil. 
In this, however, they only share the fate of many of 
their predecessors, who surrender the scepter of life at 
the very throne of success, had they only looked in 
the right direction to behold the gems of truth ready 
to flash out before their wandering eyes. What a 
surprise would have been theirs, had they only turned 
their eyes toward heaven, as they had so often been 
commanded to do, and studied nature as a whole; 
they would have learned much pertaining to her 
subtle forces and become familiar with the secrets of 
her mighty works, then how much they would have 
learned to their own interest and to the advantage 
of the human family, and how many facts in nature 
they might have discovered long ago, and what 
beautiful truths they might have scattered broadcast 
to an anxious waiting world, and how much false- 
hood and superstition they might have throttled in 
their embryonic form and thus made their lives both 
profitable and glorious. But instead, they have 
bolstered up stale dogmas, divine falsehoods, old saws 
and ancient superstitions, which came to, and have 
continued to curse the human family since they first 
entered the mind of vicious man. It is painful to 
contemplate the social and political conditions of the 



16 INTRODUCTION. 

world when compared w T ith what it would have been 
had truth prevailed and falsehood been dethroned. 
Had the laws of nature been properly understood, 
generally taught and zealously observed at the proper 
time to quicken the human germ, that it might 
receive the full benefits of the benific, heavenly forces, 
which would have finally developed it into the full 
frutitions of manhood and womanhood. How different 
would be the condition of society today. Instead of 
vast sums of money being expended for the care of 
viciously insane, the hungry and the destitute, it 
might be spent to educate thousands of neglected 
youths and train their minds for lives of usefulness 
and personal satisfaction. But with all the power of 
human intelligence man has arrogated to himself. 
He is a frail, incapable creature, subjecting himself 
too much to the whims of the less capable, who have 
no aspirations above a petty personal motive. It is 
not the laws of nature that concerns their microcosm, 
nor the force of heaven that reaches their under- 
standing. What do they care whence comes the 
gases which produce the wheat, sheep and cattle, so 
long as their tables receive their tri-daily supply of 
bread, mutton chop and roast ribs of beef, to sustain 
their wearing muscular tissues, to invigorate their 
mental organs and to refill their rapidly exhausting 
brain cells that they may have health and strength 
to jostle each other in the wild race for lucre. 

What matters it to them whether God made the 
world in six davs or that it was thrown from the sun 



INTRODUCTION. 17 

and found its orbit in six years, or by a slower process 
it was formed by the accumalation of gases in six 
millions of years, so long as her ample products are 
forth coming at their command. 

What does it matter to them whether our boys 
are to be confined in asylums, locked behind bars, 
or hold honorable positions in business, science, 
literature, art, or profession, so long as their appetites 
and passions are appealed, they love God and pay 
the preacher. 

Forethought is not a marked characteristic in the 
human family, as proven by the lack of interest taken 
in the subject of reproduction. 

This is not a question of information, only 
simply to gratify a longing for unknown facts of 
nature, as the discovery of a comet, a distant star, or 
the satellite of another planet, but it is one of 
importance to all mankind. It is for the social good 
of every nation and essential to the mental progress 
of the whole world, individually and collectively; for 
this reason it should enlist the attention and gain the 
support of all, and especially those who are able to 
think for themselves, but does it. 

However, there has been a passing interest taken 
in the origin of man since evolution has been placed 
upon the spit. It has been roasted, cooled and 
toasted again, assailed by its enemies and defended by 
its friends, until its strong points will scarcely hold 
its weak ones together, even in the hands of its most 
powerful supporters, while its theological enemies who 



18 INTRODUCTION. 

have long and faithfully been drilled in the drama 
of creation as found in the first book of Genesis and 
purported to have been a divine revelation to man 
of the origin of life, condemn the Darwinian theory 
of evolution with all the vehemence at their command, 
while a very large percentage of the human family 
do not accept either as a correct solution, and are 
patiently waiting the promulgation of a more logical 
rendering of the problem, and one which is more in 
keeping with the present order of things than are 
either of the former doctrins. 

And since there is a marked divergence of opinions 
among the honored, learned and great in regard to 
the beginning of life, the author feels justified in 
formulating a new theory which is supported by 
more facts than either, if not all of the known 
theories combined. 

But doubtless many will deem it a presumption 
on his part to oppose the life efforts of the great 
Darwin, while others will declare it sacrilegious to 
doubt the statements of Moses, and perhaps sigh for 
the return of the Holy Inquisition to check the flood 
of free thought and thus preserve the institutions of 
fables, falsehoods and superstitions. But the dykes 
are down and the wild waves are upon them, washing 
the sands from beneath their uncertain foundations. 
It is only a matter of time when the great wrongs of 
the pa=t and those practiced in the present will be 
righted, and might will not always be right, neither 
will superstition reign. 



INTRODUCTION. 19 

For years the author has been pleased to know 
that the inquisition of the "Holy of Holies ? ' has 
been abolished, even in wicked Spain, and has had 
cause to rejoice that it is not now the rule of law on 
the free soil of America, where free speech is not 
altogether suppressed and where thoughts can freely 
flow without fear of priestly frown or the rack, 
dungeon or ax. 

Though the vicious blade has ceased to vibrate in 
the jaws of the murderous gulletine to silence the 
voice of the thinker and reformer, yet tongues still 
continue to wag in defense of classified superstition. 
But their echoes are growing fainter and farther, 
and will finally be drowned in rejoicings of the people 
made happy that truth has come to stay. 

BARBARIC LEGISLATION. 

It can scarcely be credited that a man could have 
been iound in the great state of California capable 
of framing a bill to suppress the freedom of speech, 
and especially the practice of a science in the free and 
easy going west. Yet there was just such a man, and 
furthermore there was elected a Senate of chosen men 
to represent and defend the liberties of the people of 
the great commonwealth of California, that voted 
upon that bill, passed it, and had it not been for the 
superior intelligence of the lower house, it would have 
become a law and thus put a check to free thought, 
scientific growth and disgraced the sun, set shore of 
freedom's sacred land. 



20 INTRODUCTION. 

For what? That superstition and falsehood might 
live and flourish off the credulity of an injured people. 

HERE IS THE BILL. 

"Any person who for valuable consideration or 
promise of reward undertakes to predict to another 
the future or reveal the past by means of cards, 
communications from the dead, the examination of 
any part of a person, of the dead or living, looking at 
the stars or heavens or representations thereof, planets 
or other bodies, heavenly or otherwise, or by any 
means not natural, or who prints or causes to be 
printed, or exhibits any sign or symbols intended to 
induce others to have their fortunes told, the past 
revealed, or the future predicted is guilty of a mis- 
demeanor." 

Now the important question arises: Who was it 
that introduced the bill? Was it an infidel, a 
spiritualist, a clergyman, phrenologist or a crank? 
Surely it was not an astrologer, but whoever it was, 
tried to disgrace the name of freedom and received 
more assistance in his heinous effort to suppress 
freedom of action than the wildest fanatic would 
have dared to guess. , But the march of science 
cannot be stayed by law, superstition, or neglect. It- 
may encamp for the night to recuperate its ever increas- 
ing forces, but with the morning sun its unbroken lines 
will resume their impatient march. 

But the foregoing is proof that the cloven foot 
still exists to protude from beneath the sacerdotal 



INTRODUCTION 21 

robes of inspired divines, to crush human hope and 
destroy the happiness of all mankind. But when the 
struggling masses once learned that the heavens rule 
the development of the human brain they will then 
have their visions clear to the fact that the black 
robes of sacerdotal forms only cover the common 
anatomy ruled by ordinary human brain, and the 
majority of them doubtless are developed by the most 
ordinary combination of planitary gases From their 
acts one would be compelled to think that they were 
begotten in iniquity, reared in selfishness and 
superstition, educated to deceive, mislead the young, 
frighten the timid, plunder the poor and rob the 
widow of her mite. 



ZODIACAL SIGNS— HOW DISCOVERED. 



The division of the heavens, as they were sur- 
veyed and laid out by the ancient astrologers and 
astronomers, for they are both one in practice in the 
early history of the science. They were called signs 
for the reason that they could not understand how r 
the stars so far away could effect the people of the 
earth. In fact they thought the divisions were only 
signs of what the physical development would be from 
hereditary causes. They did not then know how the 
Zodiac executed the great fixed laws of nature w r hich 
produced all things mundane, which they have since 
been discovered to do. 

In primitive days when there w r ere no mechanical 
devices, by which to note the passing hours of fleeting 
time, it became necessary to devise some means by 
which the important events of life might be recorded. 

The handy clock and the more convenient watch, 
and even the hour-glass w r ere then unknown, and 
though the semi-civilized people of those days were 
very ignorant of all arts, science and mechanical 
devices, nevertheless they discovered a method by 
which to keep the records of the daily and nocturnal 
events of human life. Their custom w r as to observe 
the heavenly bodies and note their positions at the 
time events occur. The position of the sun by day, 
and the places of the moon and stars by night, and 



ZODIACAL SIGNS. 23 

in some crude manner make a record of them. They 
all knew when the sun rose, when it reached the mid- 
heavens and when it set. Then by practice they 
learned how to divide the quarters of the semi-circle 
into equal parts, and then tell the exact time of day 
by the position of the sun; then by selecting a bright 
star they could tell the time of night by its position, 
for the sun and stars ascended to the mid-heaven and 
set at the same rate of speed; therefore the rule that 
would apply to the sun would also apply to the 
planets and stars. 

The sun and the planets were doubtless first 
employed for that purpose. Later on the fixed stars 
were brought into use. Venus and Jupiter being very 
bright and beautiful objects among the fixed stars to 
the rude children of nature, early became familiar 
to them: owing to their mutability they were curiously 
watched by the simple minded people of those far- 
remote unscientific days, before their influences were 
discovered. They observed the moon as she moved 
from star to star; they saw the planets change their 
places; they admired their beauty and loved their 
mystery, and what charmed them most they crown 
with the highest title of admiration of goodness and 
virtue. They felt the influence of the planets and 
knew they brought them good. They saw them 
sparkle and gleam in the depths of the blue firmament 
and called them shining angels. Further than this 
they knew nothing of those mysterious bodies, floating 
far away in their trackless rounds of endless space. 



24 ZODIACAL SIGNS. 

Those people are even now clubbed "star-gazers and 
sun-worshipers,"and wise men sometimes laugh at the 
title thus bestowed. 

Yet is there anything higher in the form of 
worship, holier in the desire, more beautiful in its 
simplicity, or more practical in its results than ador- 
ing a living truth? Let those who worship an ancient 
myth, a flaky wafer, a glass of wine, the spirit form, 
and laugh at astrology, reflect. 

Astrology doubtless was the highest form of 
worship ever known to man. From Jupiter came the 
word Jove or Jehova; from Saturn was derived Satan. 
The Lord of hosts (of stars), The Most High fixed stars^ 
shining angels, ministering angels, angels of glory and 
angels of light, angels of darkness, seven angels, and 
swift winged angels, are all astrological terms as 
applied to the fixed stars and planets; but they have 
all been misinterpreted for a purpose, but eventually 
their true meanings will be understood. 

A writer commenting on the number seven found 
go often in the Bible refers to it as a sacred number, 
because, I presume, he did not understand why it was 
so profusely employed in that connection; but had he 
looked far enough to have discovered its origin he 
would have learned that the number originated with 
the seven planets : Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, 
Mercury, Sun and Moon, all which were then known 
to the ancient astrologer. 

The following is a partial list of the things num- 
bered by sevens: The days of creation were seven; the 



ZODIACAL SIGNS. 25 

years of famine and plenty were numbered by seven; 
there were seven days of the week, and every seventh 
day was the sabbath of rest; after seven times seven 
years came the jubilee; the feast of the unleavened 
bread and the tabernacles was observed seven days; 
the golden candlesticks had seven branches; seven 
priests with seven trumpets surrounded Jericho seven 
times, and seven times the seventh day; Jacob obtained 
his wives by a servitude of seven years; Samson kept 
his nuptials for seven days, and on the seventh day 
he put a riddle to his wife. He was bound by seven 
green withes, and seven locks of hair were shaven off; 
Xebebuchadnazzer was seven years a beast; Shadrach. 
and his two companions in misfortune were cast into a 
furnace heated seven times more than it was wont. 

In the new testament everything occurs by seven; 
in the revelations we read of seven churches, seven 
candlesticks, seven spirits, seven trumpets, seven 
plagues, seven vials, seven seals, seven stars and seven 
headed monsters, and is pretty good evidence that the 
ancients, whom people now suspect were Christ wor- 
shippers, were star worshippers instead, with the 
Christian doctrine as a side issue. By the practice of 
observing the heavens for the purpose of recording 
events, they became familiar with the positions of the 
fixed stars and the motions of the planets. 

Occasionally all of the planets would be invisible 
by being beneath the earth during the night time, 
therefore could not be observed for the purpose above 
mentioned. It then became necessary for them to 



26 ZODIACAL SIGNS. 

single out some of the most prominent fixed stars to 
be observed in the m absence of familiar planets, after 
which it was discovered that a new influence existed; 
then by careful observation it was noticed that the 
general influences supposed to emanate from fixed 
stars extended over 30 degrees of space, and that all 
children born at the rising of any one of the twelve 
divisions of the heavens partook of like developments 
and general characteristics. Thus they discovered a 
very convenient and reliable system for finding the 
time all important events occured,and also the zodiacal 
influences in the brain. This observation continued 
till they had discovered twelve distinct forms and 
characters produced by the twelve zodiacal division? 
which they called houses, or mansions of the heavens. 
Hence the quotation: "In my father's house are many 
mansions." 

As language was very imperfectly understood at 
that time, and embraced only a simple dialect, then 
the weak understanding of the ordinary people 
made it necessary for the teachers of those days to 
resort to illustrations, and draw comparisons from 
what was known of their mundane surroundings. In 
order to impart the heavenly knowledge the more 
thoughtful ones had obtained by observation, the ani- 
mals of the forest and the beasts of the fields were chosen 
to symbolize the respective houses of the heavens. 

Aries. — The ancients noticed that all persons 
born at the rising of the first divisions of the heavens 
were irritable, quick tempered, active and combative. 






ZODIACAL SIGNS. 27 

To illustrate this character they selected the animal 
which they thought would answer the purpose best. 
As the ram was known to possess the foregoing peculi- 
arities he was chosen to symbolize the division of the 
heavens which produced the effect in man and called 
it Aries, the Greek word for ram. 

Taurus. — The next division of the heavens pro- 
duced a short, stout body, a mild, pleasant disposition 
until aroused, when he became as furious and terrible 
as the bull. He was therefore chosen to symbolize 
the second division of the heavens and called Taurus, 
the Greek word for that animal. 

Gemini. — The division following produced a quick, 
active, pleasant disposition; a person fond of climbing 
to high places. It being a double bodied sign, the 
ancient astrologer symbolized it by the twin kids, but 
later on they were substituted for the human twins, 
because of the fine feelings and sensitive nature it pro- 
duced. It is called a double bodied sign since the 
moon in that sign at the birth of a male child causes 
a plural marriage. The sun in that sign at the birth 
of a female child causes a plural marriage. 

Cancer. — The next division in the circle of the 
heavens is Cancer, so named because it produces a 
mild, inactive, non-aggressive character, who would 
shun an enemy, but fond of the water, and like the 
crab, prone to retreat; hence the crab was chosen as a 
representative of the character produced by that di- 
vision and elevated to the heavens. 



28 ZODIACAL SIGNS. 

Leo. — As the lion was symbolical of the disposi- 
tion produced by the succeeding division he was im- 
mortalized in the heavens, and called Leo. 

Virgo. — The next division produced a modest 
character, pleasing in manner and possessing an un- 
usual degree of refinement. For this reason the fairest 
and purest of their tribes was chosen to symbolize the 
division, and called Virgo, meaning the virgin. 

Libea. — The following division produced a mild, 
pleasant, inoffensive character, with a gentle and 
yielding disposition, unvarying in manner and cour- 
tesies. For these reasons this constellation was sym- 
bolized by the balances. 

Scorpio. — All persons born at the rising of the 
succeeding division were pleasant so long as they were 
not molested; could have their own way in all things; 
but no sooner were they crossed or offended than they 
became bitter and sarcastic; their tongues would sting 
like the sting of a scorpion. For this reason the 
scorpion was chosen to represent the disposition of the 
person ruled by that sign. 

Sagittarius. — The pecularity of the person born 
at the rising of the next sign could not be illustrated 
by any living animal. Therefore they were compelled 
to invent a figure for that purpose, and since all 
persons born at the rising of this sign were fond of 
horses and hunting they had to combine the forms of 
two animals, the man and horse. Consequently the 
Centaur was invented and called Sagittarius, meaning 
half man and half horse, and thus the division of the 



ZODIACAL SIGNS. 29 

heavens which produced the effect was symbolized. 

Capricornus. — The succeeding sign of the zodi- 
acal belt produced a quiet person, having thin beard 
and a peculiar springing gait, giving at the knees 
when walking, and shaking his head when talking; 
changeable and somewhat fickle. Some of these pecu- 
liarities were seen in the goat; he was therefore 
selected to represent the person born at the rising of 
that zoadical division and named Capricornus, mean- 
ing the watergoat. 

Aquarius. — The succeeding division in the zodiacal 
belt produced a degree of refinement, fondness for 
flowers, pictures, paintings and decorations; as the 
flowers were the only means they had of gratifying 
that taste, they cultivated, watered and w r atched them; 
thus the division was symbolized by the waterman. 

Pisces. — Pisces the last sign in the circle of beasts, 
is represented by the fishes, because that division of 
the belt when rising produces a fondness for water, 
swimming, boating, fishing as well as drinking. This 
completes the Zodiac, which means a circle of beasts. 



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CHAPTER I. 



MATTER. 



ATOMS. 

'Tis glorious to gaze on the firmament, 
And study the forces that be. 
To watch from afar each planet and star, 
that creates all life we can see. 

But whence come those atoms of matter, 
Which are sent from the planets to earth ? 
To give force to the seed of the flower, 
And to animal life give birth. 

Man has struggled this problem to master 
For thousands of years, they say, 
But the source whence sprang those atoms 
Will remain hidden forever, and aye. 

Though man can analyze physical matter, and 
separate it into its component elements, and also name 
the gases of which it is composed, still matter is a 
mystery to man. Whence it comes he does not know, 
neither can he find out. Its original condition before 
it resolved itself into suns, worlds and satellites is sup- 
posed to have been gaseous, but how they were created 
is not known. Some scientists think that gases have 
always existed; perhaps it is true. 

I have no serious objection to endorsing that view 
of the matter myself, since it is a very safe position to 
accept, because of no immediate danger of being dis- 
lodged therefrom. Gases may have always existed, but 
it matters not whether they have existed always or 
only half that length of time. If the latter be true, I 
cannot tell just when the first cloud began to form. 



MATTER. 31 

How each atom of matter was endowed with its special 
functions cannot be known, and why they will unite 
with each other will continue to be unexplained. The 
physical process of growth may be known, but the 
chemical action never ! That is a point too subtle, and 
a cause too remote for the grasp of the human mind; 
nevertheless, some will speculate on causes as long as 
they are able to think, reason or plan, or till nature 
renders her most profound secret to man. Most people 
are satisfied to let the subject rest, content with believ- 
ing that all nature is the worK of an unknown and un- 
seen hand. The thinking mind is always agnostic and 
wants to know why. He is willing that God should 
have all the honor there is in the office, when he is 
satisfied that it belongs to an intelligent existing de- 
signer and creator. But until that point is settled he 
will ponder in doubt and continue to search for causes 
until the end. So far as man can penetrate the secret 
there is no power superior to the chemical action of 
matter, which alone is able to create force, motion, 
worlds and life. 

When the human mind is able to grasp the laws 
which cause two or more atoms to unite in creating 
forms, animal or otherwise, he has comprehended all 
there is of God, solved the problem of life, the growth 
of bodies and the creation of worlds. To comprehend 
the smallest act of nature is to understand her most 
profound laws and stupendous works. Man knows 
something of the planet on which he has built a tem- 
porary home and has an imperfect knowledge of the 



32 MATTER. 

solar system; but he cannot conceive the magnitude of 
the mind required to plan or the strength of the arm 
necessary to put into motion even the bodies which 
revolve in such perfect order about the genial sun. 

Probably man can comprehend a being able to 
watch over this little world of ours, count the hairs of 
the head, number the sands of the sea-shore with little 
help, but he can know nothing of the being, able to 
create boundless space and people it with flaming balls 
of firey matter, dead bodies and opaque worlds; not to 
mention the creation of gases. 

A glance into starry space is enough to engulf the 
thoughtful mind in a sea of reflection, and to reveal to 
man his utter insignificance. Then, instead of extoll- 
ing himself to the tenth heaven, there to sit beside the 
architect and builder of the mighty universe, he will 
feel more like clothing himself in sackcloth and ashes, 
and seeking the society of one of heaven's discarded 
angels, if he has enough vanity left to think himself 
worthy the society of a member of the royal family. 



CHAPTER II. 



DISTANCE. 



One of the very difficult obstacles to surmount in 
the path leading the human mind up to the point of ac- 
cepting the sublime philosophy of planetary influences 
as set forth in astrology is the question of distance. 

It is generally supposed that the planets and fixed 
stars are too remote from the earth to have any 
influence in the human organism, even if they do throw 
off gases, notwithstanding the fact all thinking minds 
know the contrary to be true, nevertheless they dispute 
astrology. 

It has been calculated this earth is about 92 mill- 
ions of miles from the sun, a distance no one can com- 
prehend, but when we read of a death from a sun-stroke 
no one doubts the fact, but the thoughtful man ponders 
long over the same, trying to solve the problem for him- 
self, but he is sorely puzzled to explain how it was 
done, to his own satisfaction, since he cannot under- 
stand how heat can be transmitted so great a distance 
with such a violent force simply by radiation, even 
if the sun rays did not become cooled in making the 
transit, how the earth could receive them with so much 
violence after their force is nearly if not quite spent, as 
one might well suppose, as they would be after travel- 
ing that distance, is a thing not easy to understand. 

To pass through that space at the rate of 250,000 
miles per day would require about 365 days to complete 



34 DISTANCE. 

this immense journey, even if there was no loss of 
energy or heat during its transit. The earth would not 
receive a sufficient number of electric volts to produce 
the effect reported, therefore it is fair to conclude that 
the theory of radiation is wrong; but it might be reason- 
ably accounted for by the force of attraction. 

By attraction of gases may be brought to the earth 
with a much greater force than by radiation, because 
the nearer the rays of heat approach the faster they 
would advance. 

But even if there was no difference in the force 
produced on the earth by a single atom of matter by 
these two laws, attraction would have the advantage 
in the number of atoms collected at a given point on 
the earth, since attraction converges, and consequently 
would draw them together, while radiation diverges, 
therefore would scatter, light heat and gases; so that 
by the time they reach the earth they would have but 
little force left to produce any effect. 

The more atoms attracted to a given point the 
greater would be the effect produced by them. There- 
fore attraction is more reasonable than radiation, re- 
gardless of the phenomena produced. Then if the earth 
could attract sun forces she could also attract planetary 
gases. Another evidence in favor of attraction is that 
the planet Mercury supplies the gases which produces 
the organs of causality. When Mercury is at the point 
nearest the earth or about 50,000,000 of miles away he 
is in his weakest position except the opposition, and 
produces the least visible effect in the brain. 



DISTANCE. 35 

When he is nearly twice that distance from the 
earth he is then in his strongest position and produces 
his greatest development of the brain. The explanation 
for the different effects is as follows: The earth attracts 
gases from the sun, consequently there is an immense 
current passing between the sun and the earth. When 
Mercury is passing through that current his gases are 
so dissipated by the sun's rays that a child born at 
that time cannot receive it, consequently causality 
does not develop. But when Mercury is at his greatest 
elongation he has passed out of the sun's rays, and 
therefore his gases are attracted to the earth in his 
purest state, so the brain of the child born at that 
fortunate time can and does receive and utilizes them 
in producing brain matter. 

The foregoing facts I have many times proven by 
locating the position of the planet Mercury from the 
development of these organs, which is done simply by 
the touch. When causality is large it is safe to say 
that Mercury is free from the sun's beams. If the sun 
radiates his forces to the earth then it would necessarily 
follow that he would radiate them the same distance 
in all directions from his center, consequently Mercury 
would never be free from his beams, and the farther he 
would be from the earth the greater would be the 
depths of solar rays his gases would have to penetrate 
to reach the earth, and the more they would be ab- 
sorbed by the sun's forces in their journey, furthermore 
the farther Mercury is from the earth the greater would 
be the divergence of his rays, consequently a less num.- 



36 DISTANCE. 

ber of them would reach the earth, therefore the farther 
Mercury is from the earth the weaker should be his 
effect in the brain, which is not true until he reaches 
an afflicting point beyond the sun. When the sun's rays 
again impede the forces of the Mercurial gases, when 
his force is again weakened. Thus it can be seen that 
it is not distance which produces the different effects in 
the development of the Mercurial brain, but the attrac- 
tion of the earth. 

Mars, Venus, Mercury, when at their nearest ap- 
proach to the earth are not nearly so far away as the 
sun is all the time, therefore if the earth can attract 
the sun's forces all the time, she should be able to 
attract planetary gases at least, part of the time, even 
if distance does interfere. 

If the sun can radiate his heat and chemical forces 
92,000,000 of miles and produce the above named effect 
the planets could not, for their power of radiation must 
be extremely limited, owing to their temperature, yet 
they are known to affect the earth and all life on its 
surface. If the gases were forced here it is not an easy 
matter to understand why the atmospheric pressure 
would decrease with the square of the distance from the 
earth. If any difference the forces would work the 
other way; for radiation of heat is one atom pushing 
against another. Oxygen is required to produce fire, 
when wood is being consumed, oxygen rushes in the 
to the assistance of the carbon, thus crowding all of the 
liberated gases outward. The greater the fire the more 
force would be produced by the oxygen rushing in, and 



DISTANCE. 37 

the faster would the gases be crowded into space; but 
as fast as they would get room they would decrease in 
motion, even if they did not stop altogether. Then, 
after they had entered ethereal fields they would not 
be likely to plunge on into a more dense atmosphere, 
like that of the earth's, with a force so violent as to 
destroy life in man and beast and vernal vegetation. 
Scientific men have arranged it among themselves to 
have the atmosphere retained at the earth's surface by 
attraction, while light, heat and gases are affected 
differently; but I protest against such absurdity, and 
place them all under the same law, the law of attrac- 
tion. The waters of the ocean are greatly agitated all 
the time. The cause of its unrest is attributed princi- 
pally to the attraction of the moon. The moon is a 
much smaller body than the earth, but her admitted 
attraction is sufficient to lift the water in midocean 
one foot heavenward. If the moon, though only one 
fiftieth size of the earth, can affect [the ocean to that 
extent by attraction, then it is not unreasonable to 
infer that the earth can attract gases from the heavenly 
bodies. The moon is said to be a dead body; that is, 
she has no moisture; therefore, life cannot be created 
on her surface, nor could it long exist if it were created. 
The want of moisture is ow r ing to the fact that she has 
no affinity for both oxygen and hydrogen gases, the 
union of which is necessary to produce water; but 
doubtless she has a strong attraction for one of them, 
the effect of which is to disturb the waters of the earth 
by trying to separate those gases. 



38 DISTANCE. 

Venus is a much larger body than the moon, and, 
logically speaking, she ought to exert some force on 
things mundane, even though it is not so sensibly felt 
as the forces of the sun and moon. Her attraction for 
some of the earth's gases might be just as powerful as 
that of the moon, but not for oxygen or hydrogen, and 
therefore her effect is not so discernible on the face of 
the waters. 

Owing to their immense distance from the earth 
it is quite impossible to judge the effect one planet has 
on another, by any variation from their usual course. 
At most the effect can only be very slight. The influen- 
ces of the sun and moon are plainly discernable on the 
earth; but not so with the planets. Their effects are 
only noticeable in the development of the brain, which 
is the only way anything definite can be learned con- 
cerning the influence on the earth. Tne remote posi- 
tions of Uranus, Saturn ancT Jupiter from the earth, 
their temperature, etc., positively forbids the power to 
radiate their gase^>the immense distance through which 
they must pass to reach the earth, and yet their gases 
are known to be here. Therefore it must be conceded 
that they reach the earth by the force of attraction. 

The distance of Mars from the earth varies greatly. 
His nearest approach to it being about 50 millions of 
miles, his most remote point being about five times 
that distance, or about 250 millions of miles. Yet 
astrologers have discovered no difference in his influence 
when at different points in his orbit at the time of 
birth, which would not be the case if ke radiated his 



DISTANCE. 39 

forces. He is just as potent when 250 millions of miles 
away as when only 50 millions of miles from the earth. 
In making his transit Mars is said to be more malific 
when passing the conjunction of the sun, than when 
passing in opposition to that luminary. Of this, how- 
ever, I am not s ure, but if it is true I have no explana- 
tion to offer for the paradox, but will leave it with those 
who have made the (observation to clear up the mystery. 
Mars is five times Tne" distance from the earth when 
making his conjunction transit than when he is pass- 
ing the opposition, and why he should be stronger when 
he is farther from the earth, I cannot explain by any 
hypothesis. 

Mercury, like the moon, is also said to be a lifeless 
body. Some scientific men say that he is hot; yes, red 
hot, being so near the sun, only 37 millions of miles 
away; others say he is cold as ice and hard as lead. 

"Being so old and a long time dead 
He is petrified, I tbink, they said." 

I sometimes think that scientific men and religion- 
ists enjoy studying subjects they know nothing about, 
and upon which they never can become informed. 
Perhaps it is because their views on the subjects, how- 
ever wild and illogical, cannot be successfully disputed. 
They therefore cannot be vanquished. 

When men will study the planets in space without 
first learning all they can about them at home, savors 
of the unmentionable, and when they will dispute 
known facts about the planets for selfish reasons, there 



40 DISTANCE. 

is room to doubt their honesty or intelligence; yet these 
men have great influence in society. 

The author once read the horoscope of a young* 
lady just before she visited Lick's observatory, on 
Mount Hamilton, California. After taking a view of 
the mighty planet Jupiter through the immense teles- 
cope, she asked the man at the glass if there was any 
truth in the planets having influence in the human 
brain. "No," he replied, "Astrology is an ancient 
myth." And the young lady, right in the face of per- 
sonal evidence, believed the professor because he was 
drawing a big salary. 

Very little is known of the temperature of the 
planets, and very little else except their motion and 
influence in the human brain. If the fires of 
Mercury have smouldered and gone out, and he 
has no internal heat, and must depend upon the 
heat of the sun to operate the quicksilver col- 
column, his temperature does not run very high, and 
unless his power of attraction for the sun's heat is 
proportionately much greater than that of the earth, 
he is not very hot, and the radiation of the sun's rays 
could not affect his people disastrously; but so far as 
his physical conditions affect the mental condition of 
man on this earth, it matters not whether his people 
bathe in lakes of molten lead, or live in huts of ice; 
whether his gases are hot, cold, moist or dry. Their 
effect on the earth would be the same under the law 
of attraction, since the earth would only attract her 
affinities from that body, and their temperature would 



DISTANCE. 41 

be the same on reaching the earth, whatever their 
condition might have been before leaving that body. 

There is no evidence against the magnetic powers 
of the earth being able to attract gases from any and 
all celestial bodies regardless of distance. Venus is 
very potent for good and, comparatively speaking, she 
is very near the earth. Uranus is very potent for 
evil, and on the contrary he is very remote from the 
earth. But if by some sudden and mysterious force 
these two planets should exchange places, their chem- 
ical influence on the earth would not be changed in 
the least degree; for the attraction of the earth is suffi- 
cient to reach her affinities at any distance. 

Saturn, Jupiter and Uranus are opaque bodies, 
and could not radiate their gases for the want of heat, 
even if the sun could throw his heat 92 millions of 
miles; but the fact of the matter is, none of them do, 
notwithstanding the fact that their gases are here and 
the source whence they came is well known to all stu- 
dents of astrology. Astrology was practiced thou- 
sands of years prior to the discovery of Uranus, but so 
closely did the ancient astrologers observe the plane- 
tary effect in mankind that they discovered the influ- 
ence of Uranus ; but not knowing whence it came, 
they attributed it to the dragon's head and dragon's 
tail, and part of fortune, the two former names being 
given to the moon's nodes; the dragon's head being 
the moon's north node, and the tail the south node; 
and the part of fortune a given number of degrees 
of areas, three imaginary points in the heavens whence 



42 DISTANCE. 

originated no influence whatever; so when they found 
a person whose horoscope they would not reveal their 
characters without the employment of these imaginary 
points, they were brought into use and were made to 
account for the influences of the unknown planet. 
Nor was the fallacy of this practice observed till after 
the discovery of Uranus, which occurred in 1781; but 
since that time astrologers have been gradually cast- 
ing aside those old mythological notions till now 
there is not an astrologer of repute who observes the 
dragon's head, tail, and part of fortune; but all have 
discarded them as vagaries. These facts are over- 
whelming in favor of mundane attraction and plane- 
tary influences, working in the human brain. If the 
above named forces had not existed, the ancient mas- 
ters would not have employed imaginary points in the 
heavens to frame a theoretical science, when there are 
so many bodies in space which would have answered 
their purpose just as well, and which they could have 
employed with much more reason if they were only 
framing a hypothetical system of divination. But no — 
their system was based on scientific principles; but 
imperfect j because all of the planets were not known 
to them. And Uranus, being so powerful when in a 
certain position in the heavens, they could readiljy 
recognize his effect in many of their subjects; conse- 
quently they knew his influence existed, although the 
planet was unknown. 

Just here let me state a mathematical proposition: 
If a spherical magnet, 7 inches in diameter, can 



DISTANCE. 43 

attract a fluid 1000 miles, how far can the earth attract 
gases, presuming both to be of equal power? Answer: 
11,088,000,000, nearly six times the distance to 
Uranus. I give this because the brain which is about 
that size is believed by some to possess that power. 
It has been stated by some that the Oriental psychics 
can send and receive mental messages hundreds of 
miles, which I have never disputed, because I have 
known thought to be sent nearly 100 miles distant, 
for which reason I cannot dispute a greater distance. 
I was personally acquainted with a lady in Kansas, 
whose husband was in the army during the rebellion. 
He was stationed at Fort Scott, a distance of about 
100 miles from home. This lady could always tell 
when her husband was coming home on a furlough, 
and so could her neighbors, for she told them before- 
hand. She could give no reason for her knowledge. 
She only knew it was true. It a brain can receive a 
message through 100 miles of space filled with atmo- 
sphere, why not further? and further what is to prevent 
the earth from attracting gases through ethereal space. 



CHAPTER III. 



WORLDS. 



It will scarcely be expected of any one writing on 
scientific subjects to enter into a detailed account of 
nature's methods of creation, even after she has so far 
advanced her work as to create gases. Nevertheless, I 
shall offer a theory which may or may not be original, 
but so far as my knowledge extends it is not very 
ancient. I do not present it for the purpose of trying 
to establish a new T theory only so far as it seems neces- 
sary to explain why celestial bodies harmonize with 
each other, and how they produced life on the earth. 
Without some plausible reason for astrology many 
people would reject it without investigating; but with 
the necessary explanations, accompanying practical 
demonstrations, it will be readily accepted by them. 

I know of nothing just like it in all the theories 
introduced to the public, but be it original or second- 
handed, it matters not to the author. He will present it 
to the reader of Stellar Dust as the most plausible, not 
to say scientific, in his judgment, of any theory yet 
brought forward on the subject of world-building. By 
some scientific men it is believed that confusion reigned 
throughout the universe prior to the creation of phys- 
ical matter, and that out of the chaotic condition of 
gases the earth and other bodies evolved; but doubtless 
such was never the condition of matter. Nature is a 
stranger to confusion. No matter how complicated her 



WORLDS. 45 

laws may be they never were confused. Should con- 
fusion once reign it could never be dethroned; for con- 
fusion implies the absence of law and order, without 
which no physical results could be produced. What in 
some cases might be considered chaos, is perfect order, 
and what is said to be a violation of a natural law is 
only a confirmation of that law; for natural laws are 
not to be violated. But the ruling of one law^ might be 
very different from that of another, and the changing 
of their forces would produce different results in their 
work. So far as man can judge by observing the at- 
mosphere it is a confused body of gases, but from the 
result of nature's works in the production of physical 
form he is able to judge a true condition of her elements. 
Nature's works are always perfect as the laws which 
create them are perfect, and all laws are true to the 
nucleus which they create, be it a flower, tree or world; 
therefore the conclusion must be that nature and order 
are synonymous terms. 

Every atom that flies in space is alive with force 
and endowed with more or less sensibility, if not in- 
telligence. There is sound reason for thinking that 
the different gases, 75 or more in number, are as per- 
fectly organized in their chemical relations to each 
other, while in their original state, as they are when in 
physical forms. Though each atom of matter, while 
in a gaseous state, is free to move about in its own 
system undisturbed, nevertheless it cannot lose its 
individuality nor its relationship to the nucleus to 
which it belongs. Why one atom of matter will attract 



46 WORLDS. 

another and repel the third is a deep mystery, but they 
do, and in so doing they form associations, and thus 
produce life of every kind. 

A narrow survey of our immediate surroundings 
confirms the truth of the statement that every form of 
life is formed by the specific combination of gases. All 
the fruit trees, shrubs, plants and flowers, differ from 
each other in appearance, texture of wood, form of leaf 
and odor emitted; but just w r hat suggested the original 
nucleus still remains a mystery. 

Motion is an innate function of matter, consequently 
gases must have been in motion before they gathered 
into separate bodies. In moving they form circles 
about different centres. These currents may have 
caused neuclei to form while rapidly moving in their 
unvarying courses. The relation of the fixed bodies of 
gases was the chemical relation they bore to each other, 
for each gaseous body exercised an attractive and re- 
pelling force. Each body of gas contained a nucleus 
different from all other bodies, and about which they 
gathered their affinities. The number of combinations 
which it is possible to be produced, even by the gases 
known to the people of earth, is innumerable. And 
the unknown number might increase the combination 
many fold. Thus under the law of attraction each and 
every atom of matter in space was enabled to find its 
place in the mighty universe of systems. When a 
nucleus was established its individuality must con- 
tinue through all time. If it could hold its position 
n space and sustain the body of gases collected 



WORLDS. 47 

against the attraction of all other nuclei for millions 
of years, the transformation from a gaseous body to a 
physical form would not change its individuality nor 
power of attraction. Thus, once organized into sys- 
tems, the universe of worlds must continue forever in 
their established relations to each other without cl^sh 
or disturbance. 

In this way would every celestial body become a 
central force, and thus would the smallest be able 
with the largest body to hold its place in the vast 
economy of nature. Thus was matter drawn together 
and organized into systems of gases. In the course of 
time a change came over the conditions of the nucleus 
of each gaseous body which wrought in them a greater 
power of attraction than they had previously pos- 
sessed, but what produced the change I am unable 
to explain, except it was motion. The greater the 
motion the denser became the body. As the force of 
attraction increased, physical matter was produced; 
as physical matter formed, its density increased and 
the play of friction began. The stronger the attrac- 
tion the greater the friction till gradually it became so 
great that heat was generated, which condition con- 
tinued till the gases in the heavenly bodies were trans- 
formed into physical matter and reduced to a molten 
condition. The heat continued till all the mass 
became as dense as the force of attraction could make 
it, when the play of friction ceased altogether, after 
which the cooling process began. The heat radiating 



48 WORLDS. 

for a long period of time, finally the surface of the 
earth became cool, and later on a crust formed, when 
the once luminous became an opaque body. As the 
crust became thicker, the surface became cooler until 
it reached a proper degree of temperature to produce 
incubation, when life was generated. As the crust 
became too large to snugly fit to the molten matter 
within, it was forced up on certain lines which 
form mountain ranges extending from north to south. 
The motion of the earth upon its axis doubtless caused 
the crust to be thrown out upon those lines instead of 
breaking on the equatorial parallels, and thus formed 
mountain ranges running east and west. 

After the earth had become cool enough, the 
heavy clouds which surround it began to condense 
and fall in rain, until vast bodies of water covered the 
entire surface of the earth, for it was spherical. The 
weight of water had a tendency to depress it, until 
finally the crust gave way on certain lines and 
crowded the surface out on parallel lines. The cen- 
trifugal motion of the earth, in connection with the 
weight of water on the surface, caused the mountain 
ranges to form as they are now seen. Internal ex- 
plosions, as some theorists explain, would throw the 
crust up into one huge pile, like the peaks which are 
seen on all mountain ranges, instead of in chains. 

Be the foregoing true or false, it is the only theory 
which will reasonably account for the different chemi- 
cal constituents of the planets and fixed stars as they 
are laid down in astrology. For this reason alone, 
I shall defend the theory until a better one is brought 
forw r ard. 



CHAPTER IV. 



PLANETS. 



Sun. — Beginning with the sun, center of the solar 
system, which is said to contain 500 times as much as all 
the rest of the matter within the limits of this mighty 
system. It has been computed to be about 768,000 
miles in circumference. Traveling at a speed of thirty 
miles per hour, it would require only about forty days 
to encircle the earth; but to girdle the equator 
of the sun would require nine years, Sundays not 
excepted, traveling at the same rate of speed. Appar- 
ently he is stationary, but revolves on his axis fn a 
little less than 26 days, at the astonishing velocity of 
about 88,000 miles per hour. He is supposed to be 
the giver and sustainer of all life, which is only true 
in part. His density is computed to be 25 hundredths, 
as compared with the earth, or about one-half as 
heavy as water. 

Mercury.- -Leaving the sun, and passing out 37 
millions of miles into space, the orbit of Mercury is 
reached, Here we find a planet 19 times smaller than the 
earth. He is moonless, without atmosphere or life. 
His diameter is 2962 miles. His density, compared 
with that of the earth, is 1.24. He requires 88 days 
to pass through all the signs of the zodiac in his jour- 
ney about the sun. His velocity is 110,000 miles per 
hour. He revolves on his axis in 23 hours. The 



50 PLANETS. 

gases emanating from this planet produce intelligence 
by developing the phrenological organs of casualty. 
The color of this planet is red, with a bluish tint. 

Venus. — Leaving the planet Mercury, and pass- 
ing out toward the zodiac, the orbit of Venus is 
reached at a point 68 millions of miles from the sun, 
where is found the "goddess of love." She is com- 
puted to be about the size of the earth. Her nights 
are forever dark; perhaps that is the reason she is 
not inhabited, for lovers will not woo where the moon 
does not shine. If she possesses human life it is *>£_a 
low intellectual order, far inferior to the people of 
earth, and that is not saying much for them. She has 
an atmosphere, though less dense than that of the 
earth. Her diameter is 7510 miles. Her density is 
.92, about the same as that of the earth. Her diurnal 
revolution is about 23 hours. Her motion on the 
equator is 1100 miles per hour. She moves in her 
orbit at the rate of 77,057 miles per hour. Her color 
on a bright, clear night is a mixture of silver and 
gold. She produces the gases which develop the love 
nature, fine arts and refinement in the people of earth, 
and was therefore called the "goddess of love" by the 
ancient "heathen" star-worshipers, but this is what 
the tramp poet says about star and other worshipers. 
The reader can take it for what it is worth: 



PLANETS. 51 

WORSHIP. 

"To gaze on the stars as they shine in the skies 

And reflect their bright lights and their fore:'-. 
And bow to their beauty and influence, is grand 
To those who have sense above horses. 

"But to worship a myth somewhere in the skies 
And mumble a senseless phrase 
Over a cracker and glass of wine 

Is weak, even for a horse that brays." 

The next resting place in our outward march 
from the sun is the 

Earth — About which very little is known. 
Some scientific men say that she has an opening 
clear through her center from the north to the south 
pole; that she is inhabited and her people live on the 
inside of her shell. Others say that she is solid as a 
brick, and her people live on the surface. The latter 
I know to be a fact — in some cases, at least. She has 
one moon, and revolves upon her axis once in 24 
hours, 48 minutes and 48 seconds. Her diameter is 
7912 miles, and her distance from the sun is about 
92 millions of miles. She has an atmosphere and pro- 
duces life. Her density is one. Her orbital motion 
is 65,533 miles per hour. 

Mars. — We find the orbit of Mars 144 millions of 
miles from the earth. He is next in size to Mercury, 
and six times smaller than the earth. He has two 
moons, a rarified atmosphere, and may produce life. 
He is agricultural in his habits, and mineral produc- 
ing in his resources, which facts are established by 
the discovery of an irrigating canal which extends 
across his entire surface, and three sluice boxes in the 



52 PLANETS. 

mining districts. His diameter is 4920 miles. His 
density is 1.24, which makes its surface harder than 
that of the earth, but their plows are made of better 
steel and their horses are stronger. His diurnal revo- 
lution is completed in 24 hours and 37 minutes. His 
velocity at the equator is 628 miles per hour. His 
velocity about the sun is 53,000 miles per hour. His 
year is 684 days, and his color is fiery red. 

Jupiter. — This is the largest planet in the solar 
system. He is 490 millions of miles from the sun. 
He has five moons, consequently is blessed by 
moonlight every night in the year. He is young in 
maturity, and is not supposed to have reached a point 
in his development that would enable him to produce 
a family, and is therefore supposed to be uninhabited. 
The diameter of this mighty speck of matter is said to 
be 88,390 miles. His density is estimated to be even 
less than that of the sun, which, if true, would involve 
a very difficult problem for astronomers to solve, since 
that would make him a luminous body. He is known 
to be opaque; but perhaps he is in his gaseous state, 
and has not yet reached his luminous condition, and 
therefore is liable to blaze forth at any time, and thus 
add another beautiful sun to our system. I think, 
however, he has passed the bright days of his youth, 
and has entered, if not passed his fruitful period, and 
since hs sustains such perfect relationship to the 
zodiac and the planets in our solar system, I must 
conclude that he is inhabited, not by a low order of 
animal life, but by a superior race of beings, which 



PLANETS. 53 

I judge to be true from the number of moons he pos- 
sesses. If each of these is as powerful in developing 
brain matter as the earth's moon is, his people have 
at least five times the amount of brain power that the 
people of earth possess. Again, if his attraction for 
zodiacal gases is in proportion to his size, his people 
must be 1200 times larger than the people of this 
earth. If a Jupiter man, in his red shirt, was to step 
on this planet, with trumpet in hand, the whole Sal- 
vation Army would have a regular Hallelujah meet- 
ing without notice, and that God had set up his king- 
dom upon earth; but since there would hardly be 
room enough in our streets for his big feet, it would 
not be wise to extend an invitation to the Governor of 
Jupiter. The diurnal revolution of Jupiter is com- 
pleted in 9 hours and 55 minutes of earth time. His 
solar speed is 28,744 miles per hour. His equatorial 
speed is 27,985 miles per hour, which is nearly 28 
times faster than the earth moves at her equator. 
His year is 12 mundane years. His seasons are three 
years each. His color is a soft red. He was wor- 
shiped by the ancients as the God of Justice. He is 
the greater beneflc, and the redeeming feature in the 
plan of life, if there was any plan in it. 

Saturn. — Saturn is the next orb encountered on 
our outward march toward the pleaids. He contains 
an immense bulk of matter, being only one-sixth less 
than that of Jupiter. He is one thousand times larger 
than the earth. He has two marvelous rings, and 
eight beautiful moons, sublime in his aspect, but ex- 



54 PLANETS. 

ceedingly malific in his influence. He is an opaque 
body, and said to be light as cork. His density is said 
to be only .12, which, however, is not true, or he too 
would be a luminous body. He has an atmosphere, 
and I judge has life on his surface. His diameter is 
71,904 miles; his diurnal motion is 10 hours and 29 
minutes. His equatorial speed is 21,528 miles per 
hour, his year is 29-§ mundane years. His seasons are 
nearly eight years long, and his orbital motion is 
21,221 miles per hour. He is the greater malific. 

Uranus. — In the immense flight across the fields 
of space from the sun, travelling at railroad speed of 
720 miles a day, we reach the orbit of Uranus after a 
journey of more than seven thousand years, through 
1,800 millions miles of space. Here we find a planet 
100 times larger than our earth. His diameter is 
33,000 miles. His density is .18, and therefore should 
be luminous. He travels in his orbit at the rate of 
30.787 miles per hour. He has a pale ashy color and 
possesses five moons. He is sensitive, original, mechan- 
ical and intuitive in his influence in the human brain, 
and may or may not be inhabited. 

Neptune, — Speeding outward to the extremity of 
the solar system, through 27,747 millions of miles of 
space, after a continuous journey of 12,000 years, we 
reach the orbit of Neptune, where is found a planet 
perhaps 50 times larger than our earth, and possessing 
four moons. He too may have an atmosphere, and 
also possess life. His diurnal motion is unknown, but 



PLANETS. 



55 



his orbital motion is estimated to be 11,958 miles per 
hour. His diameter is? His density is said to be .17, / 
which would make him luminous also. Consequently 
we ought to have thxee-move suns in our solar system, 
if the theory of creation set forth in the foregoing 
pages is correct and their density known. 



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CHAPTER V. 



CENTRIPETAL FORCE. 

The philosophy of this doctrine was laid down in 
the following form: The sun was once a mass of 
molten matter, and also a mighty magnet, possessing 
rotary motion. It completed its revolution on its axis 
in a little less than 25 days. This motion created 
centrifugal force. Its attraction is called centripetal 
force. These two forces were continually in operation, 
the one to throw apart and the other to hold together. 
solar matter — the stronger to prevail. In the case in 
question centrifugal overcame the centripetal, and 
mass after mass was hurled into space, and eventually 
became planets. 

According to the aforesaid theory, after a mass of 
matter was sent flying off from the sun, centripetal 
held it in check, and finally brought it to a circular 
motion about that body; but it not being strong 
enough to recover the detached fragments, it continued 
to follow the same path from that time down to the 
present. In substance, this is the theory advocated 
by some astronomers. It has long prevailed, patiently 
awaiting the arrival of a more reasonable one to su- 
percede it. It is a good theory to believe outside the 
school of logic. 

The Explanation. — The foregoing theon^ is uni- 



EXPLANATION. 57 

ersally taught, and owing to its extreme popularity 
is not a pleasant subject to attack. In fact it is quite 
a serious matter to assume the responsibility of trying 
to overthrow a theory so well founded in the minds of 
all, and one so universally taught throughout the 
entire world as this one is. If universal recognition 
of a supposed truth is conclusive in establishing it as 
a scientific fact, it would be useless to question this 
one; for it is recognized by all nations as the cause of 
planetary motion. To assail it will no doubt incur 
the displeasure of all its friends, who will receive it as 
an insult to science and an offence to the highest stan- 
dard of intelligence, if not as an absolute crime, for 
which the offender should be punished. However, it 
is laid down in legal lore that a man is innocent of an 
alleged crime until proven guilty; though all the world 
may be arrayed against him, the fact of his guilt must 
be established before sentence can be pronounced on 
him. The knowledge of these facts is encouraging^ 
since there is nothing to be feared from the tribunal of 
justice, whatever may be the opinion of the lobby, for 
the reason that the theory is not in the least degree 
logical in its conclusions, nor is it satisfactory to any 
thinking mind that has not been thus instructed in 
its youth and learned to believe it as it has learned to 
accept many other teachings because of their current 
worth. The forces in question, however, are not estab- 
lished by scientfic facts, sound logic, nor even 
by a process of mild reasoning, but simply by common 
consent, which I must admit is of itself not a very 



58 EXPLANATION. 

domestic force for a lone combatant to oppose ; 
but knowing the weakness ,of the enemy's guns, and 
the vantage ground of their foe, I hesitate not to enter 
the conflict for championship of theories- The vind- 
icator of these forces, in order to make any kind of a 
defense, must first show that the solar system is an 
individual entity of stellar matter, possessing an inde- 
pendent force, deriving all of its powers, just or unjust, 
from a solar orb. He must also show that it is a self- 
supporting factor of the mighty universe, and that the 
sun is the parental center, which once possessed all 
the matter now belonging to the solar system, which 
will not be an easy task for him to perform. Until 
the foregoing points shall be established he will have 
no permanent basis on which to rest his defense, and 
after it is accomplished he will be wholly at sea with- 
out boat, paddle or compass. In reality I think the 
theory has no staunch defenders among the thinking 
class of people, if, indeed, it has any. It is taught to 
fill an otherwise blank page in natural philosophy. 
This theory does not appeal to human reason since 
there are no facts to support it. It at once becomes 
legless, and therefore cannot stand. Then, with a more 
logical theory to take its place, it must soon become 
friendless and eventually die in obscurity. However 
easy to perform, this is a task I would rather shirk, 
and did at one time seriously think of omitting it from 
these pages since I have so many other drains on my 
vital forces, a limit of time and want of space. Find- 
ing the work imperfect without it, I thought it would 



EXPLANATION. 53 

be better to offer a few stray hints than to leave the 
subject wholly unmentioned, even if the arguments are 
not all I wished them to be, nor satisfactory to the gen- 
eral reader. Enough, however, will be given that the 
thinking mind may grasp the contents of the subject,, 
while the student of nature will have an ample foun- 
dation on which to rear a greater structure if he wish 
to, or, for the critic to rend asunder the whole fabric 
of argument thus woven, and scatter its worthless frag- 
ments under the feet of a rejoicing multitude. At any 
rate, I w T ill give enough of the theory for all practical 
purposes, and then leave it with the candid reader to 
dispose of as pleases him best. 




v° °(§> 



CHAPTER VI. 



CRITICISM. 



Without going back to inquire after the sun's 
origin, his orbit, physical constituents, or the cause of 
his motion, I will take him as he is, or was supposed to 
have been, when he possessed all the matter belonging 
to the solar system. 

1. It is not necessary to ask why he began his 
rotary motion. It is sufficient to know that he re- 
volves on his axis. 

2. It is not necessary to ask why he became hot. 
It is all sufficient to know that he was in that state 
when he flew to pieces. 

3. It is not necessary to ask why or how he be- 
came imbued with centripetal force. It is only neces- 
sary to know that he possessed attraction. Conced- 
ing all of the foregoing points to be non-essential, I 
will try, without their assistance, to show the fallacy 
of the alleged forces in producing the wonderful phe- 
nomena of planetary motions. 

If the sun possessed all the functions accorded to 
him, we will have to presume that he honestly came 
into possession of them, and that, too, by a natural 
cause. It will also be necessary to presume that, like 
other bodies, he grew, and therefore must have i - 
creased by a natural process of growth. After reach- 



CRITICISM. 61 

ing a certain size, the centrifugal force became too 
strong for the centripetal to hold the mass of matter 
thus collected, and therefore a part of it was released 
from the main bulk and hurled far into space. Ad- 
mitting this to be true, the loss of a part of this huge 
bulk of matter would not change the original condi- 
tion of the nucleus, and therefore it would continue to 
collect matter as before. In the course of time the 
accumulation of matter would again equal the for- 
mer body, when the overplus would be cast off 
Thus would the rjrocess continue till all of the avail- 
able gaseous matter had been transformed into solar 
matter and throw r n off into space. 

This is the only logical view to be taken of the 
subject, if indeed it has any logical side to it. Then, 
of course, the planets would not only all be of the 
same size, but would occupy the same position in 
space, because centripetal could hold together 
just so much matter against the power of cen- 
trifugal force. Therefore, when a given amount 
had be^n collected, another mass of matter would 
then be thrown off into space. If the masses were of 
of equal size, which they would necessarily be, since 
the two operating forces would be the same all the 
time, then, if they are equal in size, they would 
reach the same point in space, for bodies of equal size, 
projected by the same force, must necessarily reach the 
same point. 

The sun now revolves on his axis once in 25 days? 
14 hours and 8 minutes, and there is no reason to 



62 CRITICISM. 

think that his rotary motion was different at any for- 
mer time. Heavenly time tables always remain the 
same. No changes are made, so far as known, to ac- 
commodate theories, science or religion. But admit- 
ting that one mass might have been a trifle larger 
than another, does not account for the w T ide differ- 
ence existing between the size of the respective orbits 
of the planets; therefore, their differences cannot be 
explained by that hypothesis. 

Neptune and Uranus are computed to be equal in 
size; therefore, if projected by the same force, they 
would have reached the same point in space and now 
occupy the same orbit or orbits very near together. 
Yet, the former planet is said to be twice the distance 
from the sun as that of the latter. Saturn is computed 
to be one-sixth smaller than Jupiter, yet he is nearly 
twice Jupiter's distance from the sun. Mars is com- 
puted to be only one-sixth the size of the earth; there- 
fore, if projected by the same force, he ought to have 
reached a point in space, far beyond the earth, if 
the ratio between the earth and himself was the same 
as that of Saturn and Uranus; but he is said to be 
only one-third farther from the sun than is the earth, 
while Mercury, which is the smallest of the principal 
planets, is the nearest to the sun; but admitting that 
the planets, by some inexplicable force, were detached 
from the sun and transported to their present places 
in space, all in good condition, still we find a difficulty 
in getting them trained into their proper places. The 
sun being a magnet, it necessarily follows that all 



CRITICISM. 63 

other suns possess a similar force of attraction. There- 
fore, while the solar orb exerts an attractive influence 
over all other heavenly bodies, it necessarily follows 
that they must exert a similar influence over him, and 
consequently over every fractional part of him; which 
being true, the planets would be influenced by them in 
proportion to the size of matter each contains. 

Let us suppose the earth to- have been thrown 
from the sun; the cause of it being detached from that 
body was the inability of a centripetal force to sustain 
that bulk of matter intact with the parental mass, and 
therefore let it go, when the earth flew off 92 million 
of miles from the sun. 

Xow arises the question: Could centripetal force 
check the flight of a discarded mass of matter and 
bring it to a circular motion, and hold it at a com- 
paratively regular distance from the sun, while mov- 
ing at the rate of 65.000 miles per hour? According 
to physics, the ratio of force of projected bodies de- 
creases with the square of a distance; therefore, as the 
earth receded from the parental center, the sun would 
lose instead of gain power over it, and, inversely, as bod- 
ies approach each other, the force of attraction would 
increase with the square of the distance, which would 
have a tendency to carry the earth in a straight line, 
and eventually cause it to pass out of the solar 
system. If centripetal force were unable to sus- 
tain that weight of matter when it was in the most 
favorable position to be controlled, it is not likely that 



64 CRITICISM. 

it could call it to halt and bring it to in a circle about 
his own body, when so far away. 

But the advocates of this time-worn theory no 
doubt will deny that the fixed stars have an influence 
over the matter within the solar system. In fact, 
they are compelled to do so in order to sustain their 
theory; but if it were possible for the sun's attraction 
to force the planets in a circular motion, it is not a 
logical conclusion that they would remain in exactly 
the same path for millions of years. Even if that 
were possible, all must agree that their orbits must 
describe a perfect circle, each degree of which should 
be an equal distance from the center of the sun; in 
fact, it could not be otherwise, if the sun produced all 
the force which controlled them, but, on the contrary, 
ne is not in the center of the orbit of a single planet. 
If, as is alleged by the advocates of the Kepler 
theory, the solar system once had two suns, or 
centers around which the planets revolved, and which 
caused them to move in an elliptical path, then they 
would all elongate toward the same point in space, but 
since they clo not, and no ashes or cinders of the miss- 
ing sun were found, the agnostic will ask for an 
explanation. 

The earth's orbit is a decided ellipse, while Mars 
varies from the true circle 26,868,000 miles, about l-6th 
the diameter of bis orbit, which facts alone should de- 
stroy the old theories without any other evidence or 
explanation. But even if this motion could be intelli- 
gently explained, there is another that would puzzle 



CRITICISM. 65 

a couple of brilliant professors to elucidate to a 
natural philosopher. The planets, in moving about 
the sun. do not move in a regular curve, but execute a 
serpentine movement; why they do has never been 
satisfactorily explained by them, but if this, with all 
of the other mysteries connected with the unreasonable 
theory could be satisfactorily explained, the following 
will forever silence the advocates of centripetal and 
centrifugal forces. 



CHAPTER VII. 



PLANETARY MATTER. 



If the sun was once a mass of molten matter 
and also a mighty magnet, by a gradual 
process of growth increased in size, he was 
then composed of a given combination of matter, 
because his nucleus would attract no other kind than 
its affinities. Therefore, all different masses of matter 
which were thrown from that body must necessarily 
be of the same chemical constituents, to which fact all 
must agree. Therefore, all of the planets thrown from 
the sun must be the same in their physical and chem- 
ical constituents. Venus has elements peculiar to 
herself; Mars has elements peculiar to himself; while 
Jupiter has elements peculiar to the nucleus which 
created him — which facts alone are enough to destroy 
the old theory in the estimation of all astrological 
students, even if others persist in clinging to it. 

There is a vast difference in the size of the re- 
spective planets, which ought not to be the case. In 
the color of the lights they shed there is no resemb- 
lance existing between any two of them. In their 
diurnal motion there is but little resemblance existing 
between any two of them. In their influence in the 
human brain, which is a crowning evidence against 



PLANETARY MATTER. 67 

the world-wide theory, there is absolutely no likeness 
whatever. 

If all this evidence taken together would not de- 
stroy the groundless theory of the above-described 
solar forces, then human reason is hard to reach. 

Nebula Theory. — The neblu* theory, too, finds a 
place in the pages of philosophy, but it, too, is want- 
ing in the essential points of a science, and will not 
gracefully bear criticism. 

If the supposition is true that all the matter now 
belonging to the solar system was once collected in one 
vast molten body, of course it is spherical, since that 
is the form of all constantly moving bodies. As it 
condensed and cooled, according to theory, the center 
shrank from the surface, and thus cracked and dis- 
carded an outer shell. The shell thus discarded by 
the central sun fell to pieces, and was attracted to- 
gether and formed a planet. 

Of course, that theory is easy to understand, after 
it is known how many pieces the broken shell pro- 
duced, and which way they slid off the sun, and which 
w T as the largest, and how fast each piece had to move 
to overtake the one that w^as moving as fast as they 
were, and what force detained them in their orbits 
while the sun shrank away from them, for he must 
still exert the power of attraction over them. No 
wonder the astronomers wanted to dissolve partner- 
ship with the astrologers, so they could find time to 
calculate the motion of matter and explain theories. 
But if the theory is correct, the first shell discarded 



68 PLANETARY MATTER. 

should have produced the largest planei, and overcome 
the force of the sun's attraction, till all the pieces had 
overtaken each other and formed a planet. The sec- 
ond shell would produce a planet second in size and 
the third still smaller, and so on tiil the last one was 
reached, which would be the smallest of the entire set. 

On the contrary, we find no such a regularity in 
their sizes and positions in space, the planet produced 
by the first shell discarded being only one-tenth the 
size of Saturn, though his shell occupied half the dis- 
tance from his remote side to the remote side of Sat- 
urn, from the sun, and perhaps still more space than 
that. 

Uranus, the planet produced by the next shelL 
contains the matter which occupied half of the re- 
maining distance from Neptune to the sun and should 
not be nearly half so large as Neptune, yet he is com- 
puted to be equal to, if not greater than he. 

Saturn comes next and the matter composing this 
planet occupied half of the remaining distance and 
should be still smaller than Uranus, but he is said ta 
be one-sixth larger. 

Mars comes next, and should be, according to the 
law of decrease, much larger than the earth, but on 
contrary he is six times smaller. Thus we find no 
evidence to support the nebula theory. 

There are many nebula theories, but none of 
them satisfactory. In the foregoing theory^ the 
planets should all be alike in their constituent ele- 
ments, for the nucleus which attracted the chemical 



PLANETARY MATTER. 63 

elements would attract but one combination, conse- 
quently each would produce the same colored lights 
and have the same influence in the human brain, 
which they do not. 

Density. — The density, of course, would have 
something to do with the size of the body, but even 
that throws no light on the subject, for it is a reason- 
able presumption that the first body thrown off would 
reach its greatest density first, since it would have to 
be cold enough to crack and break loose before it could 
be discarded. But according to the calculations, the 
last planet thrown off has the greatest degree of 
density. 

Another Theory. — If the sun was a hand-made 
machine, and manufactured out of molten matter, 
and set to spinning around like a musical top on an 
open floor, we can better understand how he slopped 
over and scattered his fragments throughout the solar 
system, regardless of size, form or regularity, before he 
settled down to a level-headed speed; but the theory 
would involve too many perplexing questios for pract- 
ical purposes; for the small boy would ask who made 
the sun and what was he made of? Who melted the 
lead to make him? What did they mould him in and 
how long was he cooling? How long was the string 
they used to make him spin? Was it a big man that 
set him going, and could a small boy make him spin? 
What kind of a pavement did they start him on? and 
diverse questions calculated to distract the mind of his 
mamma and cause the Sunday school superintendent's 
head to get an extra dig, and make the school teacher 
cross for a whole week. 



CHAPTER VIII. 
PROPELLING FORCE. 



Since having disposed of centripetal and centri- 
fugal forces, it will be necessary to supply the planets 
with a propelling power, which is more forcible in its 
operation, more comprehensible in its explanations, 
and more logical in its conclusions, than the discarded 
theory embraces, or the tearing clown arguments as 
previously set forth, will not be acceptable to the phi- 
losophical reader. According to the deposed forces, 
the sun is the absolute ruler of all force in motion 
existing within the solar system; but I shall attempt 
to show that he plays only a small role in the beautiful 
panorama of celestial motion. Elsewhere I have set 
forth theoretical explanation for the formation of the 
planets, and how they found their places; but their 
exact motions in circumscribing their orbits was 
not given. Consequently, I will now proceed to 
explain the cause for their very eccentric movements. 
All of these mysterious bodies move about the sun in 
perfect order and harmony, and are continually fol- 
lowing the same unvarying courses which they have 
pursued since their first cycles were completed. So 
true are they in their motions that any point in the 
heavens which a given planet may occupy at any 
stated time in the near future may be calculated with 



PROPELLING FORCE. 71 

a marked degree of precision. Owing to their uniform 
motions it is evident that there is an unabating force, 
which sustains the planets in their celestial rounds, 
or occasionally they would vary from their usual paths, 
even if they did not lose their bearings altogether. 

We have been informed by astronomers that the 
planets disturb each other when moving near to- 
gether. That being true, it would not be out of place 
to ask what force in nature settled them back in their 
places after being drawn or crowded out of their eter- 
nal pathway for a considerable length of time, while 
moving side by side, which some planets do for years. 
Saturn and Uranus are at this time, 1895, very 
near together, where they will continue to be for years 
to come, without producing any commotion in the 
heavens or causing any unusual results so far as 
known. Of course they must interfere with each other 
now if they did when Dr. Herschel noticed a change 
in the movement of Saturn when Uranus was discov- 
ered. Owing to his great distance, it would be 
impossible for Dr. Herschel to be able to discover 
Saturn's eccentric movements, with his very im- 
perfect glass, even if they occurred. If centripetal 
And centrifugal forces located the orbits of the planets 
in the w r ay the theory describes, I am unable to 
understand how any planet can be pulled, pushed or 
jostled out of its accustomed orbit and yet remain un- 
varying in its motion, and be promptly on hand to 
make connection with all astronomical calculations, 
which are sometimes made years ahead of time; per- 



72 PROPELLING FORCE. 

haps the reader can, but those who are delicate must 
receive it in doses to suit their mental digestion. The 
author acknowledges his inability to successfully dis- 
pose of such indigestible philosophy. How a planet 
could fly off at a tangent for a short period of time, or 
even affect others to the extent of causing the slightest 
deviation from their true courses, even when they are 
moving side by side, I am unable to understand, and 
especially is it improbable under the old theory of 
centripetal and centrifugal forces. Since the solar 
forces are insufficient, in the estimation of the author,, 
to create and sustain the many motions executed by 
the planets, he feels called upon to replace the dis- 
carded theory with the following 

Illustration. — Though subject to revisions and 
corrections, it. is not wholly wanting in the essential 
of a science. Whatever it may lack in detail, it has a 
thoroughly scientific basis for its origin, and therefore 
cannot fail to attract attention. It was discovered 
after many years of hard and efficient study in con- 
nection with the zodiacal forces. These forces, for 
thousands of years, have been knowm to affect the 
human body. It is therefore not a visionary scheme. 
concocted for the special purpose of deceiving the 
reader, as shown in the following evidence. There are 
two forces existing in the human brain called attrac- 
tion and repulsion. They produce all likes, dislikes ? 
friendship, enmity, and assist in producing all of the 
love and hatred that exists in the human family; but 
w T hich forces have not been clearly understood. Why 



PROPELLING FORCE. 73 

strangers at their first greeting form ties of lasting 
friendship, and others fall passionately in love at the 
first meeting of their eyes, has always been a deep 
mystery to all save the interpreter of the language of 
the stars. Why dislikes should enter the brains of 
two entire strangers was hard to understand. 

The principal influences which produce the above- 
named effect are known to originate with the zodiacal 
divisions of the heavens, and effect the different class 
of people as follows: There are as many different 
classes of people as there are divisions of the zodiac. 
These twelve classes are sub-divided into many classes. 
In the first class, which is ruled by the movable signs, 
there exist but little sympathy, few likes and no love. 
Among those born under the rule of the next class i& 
found much sympathy, friendship and love. After- 
demonstrating the foregoing facts, I came to the con- 
clusion that the human body could not be so radically 
affected, or, rather, hold such strong affinities and an- 
tipathies, for the zodiacal elements and the earth re- 
main wholly unaffected by them. This thought led to 
a further inquiry, and finally to the conclusion that 
the movements of the earth were produced by zodiacal 
and not solar forces; but I found some trouble in com- 
paring and harmonizing the influences thus discov- 
ered, since the zodiacal forces were not just the same 
as they were on the earth. 

The earth and the moon I found to be attracted to 
alternate zodiacal divisions, while the human body 
appeared to be attracted very irregularly, which mide 



74 PROPELLING FORCE. 

the influences quite difficult to understand. But since 
it was known that each division of the heavens im- 
parted a certain magnetic influence to all persons 
horn at its rising, which, without any opposition or 
counteracting influence, would cause each person to 
act on all others the same as the zodiacal influences 
upon the earth. It was found upon closer examina- 
tion that the effect was different. Then, in order to 
trace out the zodiacal influences in man, and learn 
how they would influence each other magnetically, I 
selected twelve persons, each of whom was born at the 
rising of a different zodiacal division. I then arranged 
them in a circle corresponding with the zodiacal signs, 
and then traced out their influences in each other, and 
thereby learned their attracting and repelling forces, 
as affecting each other. 

Beginning at one born at the rising of Aries, I 
learned that he was attracted to the one born at the 
rising of the division of Taurus and Gemini, but re- 
pelled by the one born at the rising of Cancer. Then, 
again, he was attracted to the one born at the rising 
of the sign Leo, but with the one born at the rising of 
the next sign, Virgo, there was a neutral influence ob- 
served. The next sign, Libra, I found, produced an 
inharmonious feeling toward the Aries character. 

Passing to the next sign, Scorpio, I found a neu- 
tral feeling existing between the two. The next one, 
born at the rising of Sagittarius, was attracted to the 
Aries person. The next man, born at the rising of 
the sign Capricornus, was repelled, but the next two, 



PROPELLING FORCE. 75 

Aquarius and Pisces, were attracted to Aries. Thus I 
found the effect was the same, both right and left from 
Aries, till reaching the opposition sign, Libra. On 
each sign two are attracted, one repelled, one attracted 
and one neutral, when the opposition was reached, 
w r hich produced a repulsive feeling. Then, taking the 
Taurus man and passing him around the circle, I 
found the order to be the same, but he was attracted. 
to and repelled from different ones. Thus I found, 
the Taurus man to be attracted to the first two to the 
right, which was Gemini and Cancer, and repelled 
from Leo, attracted to Virgo, neutral with Libra, and 
repelled by Scorpio. Then, returning to the starting 
point, and passing the other way, I found the attract- 
ive, repulsive and neutral feeling the same as in the 
former case: attracted to Aries and Pisces, repelled by 
Aquarius, attracted, to Capricornus, neutral to Sagitta- 
rius and opposed by Scorpio. Gemini, like all the 
remaining signs, work the same. This man was 
attracted to the first two on the right, which was Can- 
cer and Leo, and repelled by Virgo, attracted to Libra, 
neutral to Scorpio and repelled by Sagittarius. On 
the left I found the Gemini person to be attracted to 
Taurus and Aries, repelled by Pisces and attracted to 
Aquarius, neutral with Capricornus. 

At first I thought their influence a little irregu- 
lar, but on making the application I found the rule 
applicable to each zodiacal sign. But why the influ- 
ence varied, as it did, with the alternate divisions of 
the zodiac, was a problem I found very difficult to 



76 PGOPELLING FORCE. 

comprehend. The only explanation I could find for 
such eccentricities in nature's work was that the earth, 
being somewhat foreign to the zodiac, had an inflence 
of her own which the zodiac could not altogether over- 
come, and that a child being born at a given point on 
the earth could not receive in full force all of the zodi- 
acal elements, owing to the position he occupied, hence 
the eccentric influence is found to exist in the people. 
The earth, not having any environments, or rather 
being a part of the great economy of nature, had 
affinities in the alternate divisions; therefore was at- 
tracted to six and repelled from six of the zodiacal 
divisions, which causes her to exercise a serpentine 
movement. The moon being composed of similar ele- 
ments, occupies the same orbit as the earth, but its 
nucleus being somewhat different, causes it also to be 
attracted to alternate signs, and the divisions of the 
zodiac which attract the earth repel the moon. It the 
nuclei of the earth and the moon had been the same 
they would have both occupied the same place in 
space, consequently there would have been only one 
instead of two bodies, or else one would have followed 
the other in the same path, but as it is they cross and 
recross each other's orbits in their journey about the 
sun. These attractive and repulsive influences of the 
zodiac cause the vibratory motion of the earh, as well 
the moon; but the zodiacal divisions which cause the 
earth and moon to vibrate may not affect the other 
planets just the same, though they all have a similar 
motion in that particular; but they may make a differ- 



PROPELLING FORCE. 77 

-ent number of vibrations in completing their orbital 
journey. Inasmuch as they are composed of a combin- 
ation of elements the zodiacal affinites of Jupiter may 
be very different from those of the earth. The planets 
have another motion which produce an elongation of 
their orbits, which motion I also explain by zodiacal 
causes. Some of the planets have a stronger affinity 
for a zodiacal division than others do; consequently 
they are carried further in one direction, which cause 
their orbits to be elongated. If all the divisions of the 
zodiac possessed the same magnetic influence over the 
planets, they would all revolve in a perfect circle about 
the sun; but instead of that they each follow r elliptical 
orbits. Stranger yet is the fact that no two of them 
■elongate toward the same point in space, as the follow- 
ing cut will show: 

The orbit of the planet Mercury elongates towards 
the division Sagittarius. Uranus elongates towards 
Aries, Saturn toward Capricornus, while the Earth 
elongates towards Scorpio. Thus it can be seen that 
none of the planets have a circular path. The 
explanation of these laws by the zodiac is the only 
explanation for the phenomena. I have not yet reach- 
ed an explanation for the motion of the earth upon its 
axis, but I have lately developed a hypothesis which 
I will present to the reader in its imperfections, hop- 
ing to give it more time and attention in the not dis- 
tant future, and have it ready for the next edition of 
Stellar Dust. 

Th e magnetic needle is said to become unsettled 
when it reaches a point thirty miles south of the equator. 



78 



PROPELLING FORCE. 



The cause of the peculiar behavior of the needle I at- 
tribute to the fact that being the magnetic center of 
the earth all of the zodiacal gases are received in that 
belt and pass into the earth, where approaching from 
opposite directions they meet and cause a whirl of 
forces which keeps the world in a regular motion on 
its axis; then passing to the north and south, they flow 
towards the poles, thus causing an electrical current 
to continually flow in those directions, and in escaping 
at the north they produce the northern lights. I am 
unable be account for the revolution of the earth upon 
its axis in any other way. Hence I offer the above 
hypothesis. 




CHAPTER IX. 



CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS. 



The heavenly bodies are so situated, and chemical- 
ly constructed, that they constitute two separate and 
distinct forces, which I will denominate constitutional 
and immutable laws, for the reason that one is para- 
mount to the other, and that the former limits the 
operation of the latter in the execution of all their 
work in nature. 

The constitutional laws are executed by the divi- 
sions of the zodiacal belt, and since they never change 
their relative positions to one another their individual 
effect upon the earth is always the same. However, an 
apparent change is sometimes produced, but which is 
caused by the intervention of the mutable or planetary 
aws. The twelve chapters of the constitutional laws, 
found in the great book of nature, are named as fol- 
lows: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, 
Lbira, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, 
and Pisces. Each of the foregoing divisions execute a 
separate and distinct law from the other. 

The constitutional are the inexorable laws of na- 
ture from which there is no appeal. They produce all 
species of life that now is, ever was, or ever will be, on 
this globe; for life of an}^ kind cannot exist independ- 
ent of these mighty forces, and when they are once 



80 CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS 

withdrawn then all life is doomed. They give size to 
body, form to man and species to all life. They also 
produce planetary motion and hold the world in its 
present position, and sustain their poles in their pres- 
ent positions relative to the north star and the south- 
ern cross. They also produce the zodiacal and equi- 
torial aspects, the same today that they did at the 
beginning of the earth's existence, and have continued 
to perform the same duty since the cycles of earth's 
time began to run. They cause the earth to complete 
her diurnal revolution in 24 hours 48 min. 48 s., and 
speeds her in her course about the sun. They bring 
the joy of spring, the golden harvest of summer, the 
fruit of fall, and the hoary cloak of winter. They 
are the all-prevailing forces of the universe. 

These laws doubtless originated long prior to the 
earth, or while it was in a gaseous state, and they 
have continued to rule and reign over it since that 
time down to the present moment, and moreover, they 
will continue to exercise that unrelenting authority 
over her long after man has any use for her support 
or protection. The earth will die by a slow process of 
decay. It will first lose its attraction for stellar 
gases in part, when they will slowly pass off into 
space nevermore to return. Then a loss of vitality 
will be followed by old age and sterility. In fact the 
process is imperceptibly going on at this time. The 
water is gradually departing from the earth; animals 
are becoming less hardy than former, while many spe- 
cies have become extinct, doubtless for the want o 



CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS. 81 

food containing a sufficiency of the necessary ingre- 
dients to give nourishment to their particular brains. 
This is the cause in part while the climatic changes 
have also had the effect to shorten life in the less 
hardy animals. The weaker go first, and finally 
others disappear. It is not a law of the survival of 
the fittest that protects and prolongs life in certain 
species. But it is the vital forces which impart to 
them strength and endurance, sufficient to withstand 
the climatic changes. 

The carniverous will survive longer than the her- 
biverous animals, and will linger about the fishing 
places until the means of sustenance has disappeared 
from the face of the earth in the form of food and 
pure air. Then Byron's tableau will be on the scene: 
" Men will linger about their camp fires, the meager 
will by the meager be devoured." Except the water 
animals man will be perhaps the last to leave the 
dreary waste of lifeless matter which, like the moon, 
will swing its huge bulk through cold trackless space 
for an eternity of time, carrying with it the ruins of 
mighty nations, the crumbling thrones of once happy 
queens, the sepulcher of kings and cruel monarchs, 
and the white bones of departed greatness. 

But, dear reader, don't be frightened for fear you 
will miss your Christmas dinner, because of all life 
coming suddenly to an end; for there is not the least 
danger of such an event taking place. If you meet 
with no accident, your health remains good, and 
you have a dollar to spare, you can have your Xmas 



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CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS. 



dinner served in good form, even according to the Queen's 
taste and you can enjey it without fear of molestation, 
because of the wrath of nature reeking vengance on 
this cold, cruel earth. When it does come to an end 
it will be after a process of disintegration. In creating 
and destroying worlds, nature never gets in a hurry. 
She shakes up old mother earth occasionally to remind 
man of her mighty forces; but not because she is weary 
of supporting her children, and desires to shake them 
off, or to destroy the marvelous work of her creation. 




CHAPTER X. 



HOROSCOPE OF CHARLES DARWIN, 

Mr. Darwin was born at the rising of Uranus in 
the sign Scorpio. When Mercury was casting a trine 
aspect to that planet, and also w r hen the sun and Mars 
were in trine to each other. Uranus in Scorpio made 
Mr. Darwin an independent, original man, despising 
the beaten track of " beliefs." Mercury in trine to 
Uranus also made him original and intuitive, and 
gave him a brilliant, scientific imagination. The sun 
and Mars in friendly aspect to each other gave him 
great mental and physical endurance. 

The foregoing influences made Mr. Darwin what 
he was in magnetic force and mental powers. He was 
a bold, progressive, original, intuitive man, such an 
one as is numbered by the sands of the centuries. 
But, his circumstances, and not his ability, gave him 
fame. Had he been born of humble parentage, he 
would have developed into one of the greatest cranks 
the world ever knew. There is but little in his horos- 
cope, except his great ability to give him name and 
fame, and since his mind was carried off in such a 
strange direction, his progressive ideas would have 
been ridiculed and laughed to scorn. But, being 
backed up by an ample fortune to support him in all 
of his researches, which were many, arduous and tedi- 



84 DARWIN'S HOROSCOPE. 

ous, he compelled attention. He was independent of 
the world, and when he got his ideas in book-form,, 
they were found to be too searching to be laughed at, 
too profound to be ignored, and too deep for the ordi- 
nary mind to grasp, which place this great man above 
and beyond the reach of all. But, without the means 
to help himself, he would have been considered a 
dreamer or a wild, visionary schemer. 

His mind did not run to money-getting; it was 
scientific, deeply profound and penetrating to the ex- 
treme degree. But for wealth he would have lived in 
obscurity, died in poverty, and his half-fledged ideas 
would have fluttered out of existence at his departure; 
but with it he rose to the crest of the billows of ap- 
plause, and the world bowed to his desire, not wholly 
because his theories were incontrovertible, but because 
he was able to stand alone in the giant strength of 
his manhood, in defiance of the opinions of the Chris- 
tian world, in defence of what he considered to be 
scientific and right. In poverty he would have done 
the same thing, but to less purpose, for which reason 
I place this man in the front ranks of the greatest 
men the world ever produced. 



^<jC 



CHAPTER XL 



ABE0GENES13 OR SPONTANEOUS PRODUCTION. 



The point has now been reached which involves 
the question of spontaneous production, or as Huxley 
defines it, life out of not living matter, which is a mis- 
nomer, or how nature produced the first pair. All of 
the necessary conditions for the production of life 
having been explained, except sexes, which will re- 
ceive attention further on. 

First it will be necessary to locate nature's incu- 
bations which created the first life. 

As the eastern hemisphere w r as, or is supposed by 
some, to have been inhabited before the western world 
w 7 as populated, it is presumably true that animal life 
began its existance in the old world, which, however, 
is only a presumption; for it is more than likely that 
life was created at every point around the entire globe 
at or near the same time. 

On all islands of any extent have been found hu- 
man forms, and each tribe differing in a small degree 
from the other. The difference, however, is more 
noticeable in the intellectual and facial than in the 
physical development, which is evidence that they did 
not spring fiom a common parent, but were produced 
under slightly different stellar forces, which would 
account for their intellectual difference. 

The earth's surface having undergone so many 
changes since the first crust was formed, it is quite 



86 A3EQGEME3I3 

impossible to tell just when life made its debut on the 
earth, nor how long the conditions lasted necessary to 
produce the higher forms of life. But presuming that 
no radical change has taken place on the earth's sur- 
face since nature began to produce life, it will be safe 
to locate the original birth-place of man on the East 
India Islands. Moses to the contrary notwithstanding. 
However, there is no special reason why life should 
not have originated in, or near, the Mediterranean Sea, 
as well as in mid-ocean, except that the position of 
the former point is less favorable for the reception of 
the zodiacal forces than is the latter place, it being 
low, moist and well protected, fitted it for the require- 
ments of nature in her work of producing life. 
Owing to its suitability, it has been selected as the 
most probable point on the earth if only one was 
chosen for the beginning of life. Furthermore, it has 
been located directly on the equator, and under the 
ecliptic, where the electrical currents from the zodia- 
cal belt play with more energy than at any other 
point in higher or lower latitudes, which increases 
its adaptability for the purpose. 

Here originated the primordial germ, and here 
vast fields of protoplasm were formed by nature's 
subtle forces. Protoplasm, like other matter, appeared 
on the earth by a gradual process of growth. Its be- 
ginning was the beginning of all physical life, regard- 
less of what may be said of atomical life. It may be 
doubtful logic to assert that there exists an atomical 
life possessing intelligence, nevertheless there is some 



SPONTANEOUS PRODUCTION. 87 

reason for such a view. However, I would hesitate to 
affirm that the president of a club of atomical char- 
acters called a meeting and proposed to organize an 
animal compact for the purpose of furthering their 
individual interests, and thus created life. 

But we cannot follow all the way down the scale 
of life, from man to the monad, or atom, and thus 
learn all of the eccentricities of the lowest possible 
form of life. Neither can we begin at the atoms and 
trace out all of their peculiar combinations up to 
man, and, therefore, cannot know all of the facts con- 
nected with their mysterious habits — their likes, dis- 
likes and social and business customs. 

It is not safe to say that man is the only intelli- 
gent animal on the earth, since it might be an un- 
pleasant task to prove it. Then, if we accord intelli- 
gence to animals one step lower in the scale than man, 
it will be a difficult matter to stop at any point short 
of the atom. However, I can see nothing unreason- 
able in taking that view of the matter, since human 
intelligence is the result of a closer association of in- 
dividual atoms of matter than when in their gaseous 
state. 

I confess that it would be a difficult task to ascer- 
tain the degree of intelligence possessed by a single 
atom, or why one should possess more intelligence 
than another; but doubtless they do, as the result of 
their combinations will testify. Twenty, nor even 
fifty billions of inanimate atoms could not under any 
condition produce a live brain; but that number of live 



88 SPONTANEOUS PRODUCTION. 

atoms could, under certain conditions, produce life 
and a degree of intelligence; but because a specific com- 
bination of atoms do manifest intelligence, it does not 
necessarily follow that all combinations of gases pro- 
duce like results. The combination which enters in- 
to the construction of the brain is the only mind-pro- 
ducing matter man knows anything about; however, 
many more may exist. 

Flesh, bone, wood and stone are composed of 
gases, but it can scarcely be understood that they 
possess intelligence; however, I have heard intelligent 
men defend the position that adhesion is a manifesta- 
tion of intelligence, and however hard to prove, there is 
room for such a view, if the reasoning is carried to the 
extreme limit. The force which holds an iron plate to- 
gether is claimed by the advocates of this idea to be an 
intelligent one, but when that plate is broken to 
pieces and ground to dust, then that force is apparently 
lost, and the supposed intelligence is not acute enough 
to reunite the scattered particles and hold them to- 
gether as before without assistance, but if that assist- 
ance is rendered by reducing them to a molten condi- 
tion, then the molecules of liquid matter, with an ap- 
parent intelligence will rush into each other's embrace; 
and, finally, when cooled, reunite as before in forming 
a solid iron plate, in which condition they will remain 
until separated by a force greater than their own. 

When heated the molecules of liquid matter become 
active, and manifest an active intelligence, but when 
cooled, they can only manifest a passive intelligence, if it 



SPONTANEOUS PRODUCTION. 89 

can be called intelligence at all. The clod of clay when 
dry is passive, but when it is moistened it manifests 
an active intelligence by dissolving. A ball of wet cl ay 
will shrink when drying, but why the molecules will 
cling to each other, and move toward the center and 
crowd closer together, is not clearly known. 

By this process of reasoning it is possible to grant 
intelligence to all matter, but I prefer to draw the 
line of distinction between animate and inanimate 
intelligence in all physical matter. 

Vegetable life manifests a greater degree ofintel* 
ligence, than does the mineral kingdom, but I much 
prefer to recognize the force in the mineral kingdom as 
attraction undefined, and that of vegetable instinct, 
for I think the vegetation acts many times instinctively 
but not intelligibly — flowers following the sun; the in- 
terchange of pollen; tbe growth of one plant on an- 
other, as the licorice root, or plant instinctively 
grows on the limbs of forest trees, and accord to all 
animal life however minute in form intelligence unde- 
fined because there are many degrees of each which 
require special definition. But these are unimportant 
technicalities which I shall not discuss just here. 

But brain life and human intelligence with its 
many degrees of power are before us, but the exact modus 
operandi pursued by nature in organizing matter into 
intellectual forces may never be known for the reason 
that the atoms themselves of which the respective brains 
are composed are too unfamiliar with man to be fully 
comprehended by him. It is plain, however, that 



90 SPONTANEOUS PRODUCTION. 

nature executes her work by force, and that all of her 
products are ingeniously, systematically and scienti- 
fically produced. If she works by force, there must be 
a law back of it to impart energy to matter and thus 
give it executive power. 

However wise and learnedly men may talk of nat- 
ural laws, they must necessarily have a very poor con- 
ception of them until they are able to define them; at 
least they must presume to understand them and be 
able to define them, according to their presumption. To 
say that a law exists, without being able to define it, 
is talking at random, even if the law does exist, since 
no one can intelligently converse on a natural law, or 
any other subject, without first understanding it. So, 
before going further in the discussion of this question, 
I will define natural law as I understand it to be, and 
leave it to the reader for his candid consideration. 
But before definining natural law, I will draw a com- 
parison between it and civil law to show their simil- 
arity. 

Civil Law. — The printed code is only an expres- 
sion of organized force, existing in the people and it 
shows to what extent that force may be executed in 
maintaining justice and order in society by those 
delegated to carry it into effect. 

The highest officers receive their executive powers 
from the people. The subordinate officers usually 
receive their instructfon from their superior officers, 
notwithstanding the fact that both are responsible to 
the people whom they serve. Thus, in civil l^w we 



SPONTANEOUS PRODUCTION. 91 

have both principal and subordinate officers. Officers 
with their prescribed duties before them are powerless 
to act, as officers since they must conform to the letter 
of the law. Law may exist and the officers may be 
clothed with full power to act, but a stranger unfam- 
liar with the custom of the country might be pres- 
ent and not know that either existed, for until an in- 
dividual oversteps the bounds of his legal rights, the 
officers cannot interfere with him. Therefore, both law 
and officers must remain as though they did not exist. 
Again, an officer might be in a country, in which 
he had no jurisdiction; in that case he would be power- 
less to act in the capacity of an officer. Thus civil law 
prescribes the legal rights of a citizen regardless of its 
source, whether derived from a republic, monarchal, 
or tribal government, for in all cases the law resides 
in the people and not in the books. 

Natural Law. — Natural law is not altogether dis- 
similar to civil law, though civil law has nothing to 
do with natural law. But it is amusing to note how 
readily and perfectly man conforms to the force of 
natural laws in every department of life. Civil law, 
so far as can be known, is framed in exact conformity 
to natural law. In nature we find both law and offi- 
cers the same as in civil governments. The fountain 
or forge of force whence originated natural law, is un- 
known. It is too subtle and remote for man's mental 
grasp, consequently it cannot be fully understood. 
Not being able to comprehend the great first cause, we 
are compelled to accept the second and third as agents 



92 SPONTANEOUS PRODUCTION. 

or officers of the first, and deal with them according 
to the light we have. Nature is a wonderful organ- 
izer. She has all of her atomical forces thoroughly 
under the control of the heavenly bodies, which are 
the superior officers, and which receive their forces or 
authority from the great first cause. The gases are 
the subordinate officers and are directed in their work 
by the heavenly bodies, though both, like civil officers, 
receive their power from the first cause. Without 
organization there could be no life, since individual 
atoms of themselves have no executive power or intel- 
lectual selection, but are as much under the control of 
the heavenly bodies as a soldier is under the control 
of his commanding officer. Each atom works in the 
ranks assigned to it, and is ever ready to execute its 
work when authorized so to do, or when conditions are 
favorable for its operation; but, like a civil officer, it 
may not always have jurisdiction. In that case they 
must remain in a passive state, in which condition 
their existence might not be known. The proof is 
seen in the following facts: 

The laws which created the mammoth, mastodon, 
and the aepyornis, the bird that laid an egg three feet 
long, exist the same today as they were thousands of 
years ago; but those quadrupeds and fowls have dis- 
appeared from the face of the earth, and no new ones 
are being created, for the laws which produced them 
are in a passive state, because the earth is cool, and 
not because the laws themselves have changed. They 
simply have no jurisdiction. 

The creative laws then are the unknown, but 
organized forces of nature, innate in atoms of 
matter, but directed in the execution of their 
work by the earth and the celestial bodies. 



CHAPTER XII. 



INCUBATING. 



Before proceeding further with the explanation of 
spontaneous generation, or nature's mode of produc- 
tion, perhaps it will be just as well to review the pa- 
tent process of incubation, which was nature's original 
plan of production, only conducted on a somewhat 
larger scale, which will make the subject of spontane- 
ous generation plainer to many, if not clearer to all of 
the readers of this volume. 

But before incubating, let us inquire into the na- 
ture of the thing to be incubated. We see the eggs go 
into the mysterious box, there to remain a given period, 
during which time we watch them closely, and occa- 
sionally examine one, and wait till life appears in an- 
other. Still nothing is learned of how the atoms were 
induced to unite in producing the animated thing. 
Dr. Dalton, in his famous work on physiology, ex- 
plains, so far as he could, the chemical constituents of 
the egg. He informed his readers that it is composed 
of oxygen, hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen, and that 
during incubation it takes on more oxygen and throws 
off carbonic gas. The egg absorbs nearly two per cent 
of its own weight of oxygen, while the quantity of car- 
bonic acid, thrown off at the same time, amounts to no 
less than 24 grains, the process going on during incu- 



94 INCUBATION. 

bation. He further adds that it is the same in eggs as 
breathing is in animals. 

The foregoing explanation being true, plainly 
shows that the animating elements necessary to pro- 
duce life come from the outside of the shell, which is 
further evidenced by the fact that eggs oiled before go- 
ing into the incubator will not hatch, because the 
pores of the shell are closed, and thus exclude the 
necessary gases from entering the egg. But the 
learned doctor leaves his students in the shadows con- 
cerning the chemical construction of the egg, or how 
it proceeds to organize life. From a chemical analysis 
it cannot be learned whether the egg in question was 
that of a duck, turkey or chicken. The chemists can 
find no beak-forms nor foot-prints on the yellow island 
floating in that chrystalline sea to reveal the form or 
character of its progenitors. Neither can there be 
found anything which will reveal the spark of life that 
is supposed to slumber in that masked substance, 
nor explain the cause of its differentiation. To the 
chemist the egg is a deep mystery. 

Then, if from a chemical analysis, little can be 
learned of the causes which produced the life within 
the egg, nor lead to the discovery of its hidden mys- 
teries, it will be necessary to proceed by mental 
analysis in order to reach any definite conclusion con- 
cerning the matter; for reasons must reign where 
demonstrations fail. 

In order to learn the process of incubation it is 
necessary to understand the organization of its chem- 



INCUBATION. 95 

ical constituents; for the egg is an organized body; but 
it contains no life within its walls any more than un- 
ignited wood contains fire; but the elements are there 
which under proper conditions will produce life in the 
one or fire in the other. The egg is only a bit of pro- 
toplasm, not altogether unlike the jelly-like substance 
which produced the original progenitors; the chemical 
elements of which the egg is composed are uot a homo- 
geneous mixture, as they appear to be. but they are 
perfectly organized in every part, and possessing a 
given number of nuclei, but which are too subtle in 
their relations to each other for their individuality to 
be discovered by any process of analysis yet known 
to chemists; nevertheless, they exist. 

Now, brother scientists, don't dispute that fact; 
for you know that the brain is composed of chemical 
divisions, called phrenological organs; yet many scien- 
tific men dispute phrenology because they cannot 
prove the mental divisions of the brain by chemical 
analysis. Nevertheless, the most ignorant as well as 
the most learned can testify to the truth of phrenol- 
ology, notwithstanding Dr. Dalton says that the brain 
is a unit. Though we have no reason for denying that 
different parts of the brain may be occupied by dif- 
ferent intellectual faculties, there is no direct evidence 
which would show this to be the case. The layers of 
gray matter in each principal portion of the brain is 
continuous throughout. There is no anatomical di- 
vision or limit between the different parts, like those 
between the different ganglia in the other portions of 



96 INCUBATION. 

the nervous system. Consequently such divisions of 
the cerebrum and cerebellum must be altogether arbi- 
trary in character and not dependent on any anatom- 
ical basis. If the physical divisions are not observ- 
able in the brain, they are on the skull, and the chem- 
ical action of the respective chemical divisions produced 
them. Then it illy becomes a chemist or any man 
of science to dispute a subtle point in chemistry, when 
a glaring fact of like nature defies his skill. The egg 
contains three distinct physical parts as seen by the 
eye. which are, first, the cicatricula, the little white 
speck which is always seen in eggs, and which is the 
germ corresponding to the ovum of the mammal. Sec- 
ond, the yellow center. Third, the white albumen 
substance which surrounds it. In their chemical 
structure these parts in no wise differ from the orignal 
protoplasm. The egg is a physical growth, contain- 
ing no active or visible life. The cicatricula is the 
germ, and contains all of the necessary elements for 
quickening. The other parts are the food necessary to 
sustain the germ in the process of its growth. The 
egg thus organized will produce life. 

If the egg is an organized body some force organ- 
ized it, and that is the agent scientists have long been 
looking for. The following is my solution for the 
problem. The brain of the fowl, like all other brains, 
is composed of chemical divisions, or brain centers, 
each of which snpplies its part of the life essence to 
the egg, while it is forming in the fowl. Thus each 
brain center creates in the egg a chemical nucleus cor- 



INCUBATION. 97 

responding to its own center. Each nucleus thus cre- 
ated in the egg is a center and magnet of attraction, 
and is complete and perfect in its chemical structure, 
after the male forces are received; after which they 
are locked up in the shell to protect them for future 
use. The egg receives its incubating forces from the 
brain of the fowl, and the brain receives its life essence 
directly from the zodiacal divisfon of the heavens in a 
pure state, by the process of inhalation and attraction. 
They are inhaled into the lungs when the blood re- 
ceives w r hat it needs and carries it to the brain, when 
the brain attracts its affinities and utilizes them in 
creating a life essence. The brain will not attract 
from the blood what it does not need for that purpose, 
therefore the blood will not attract from the atmos- 
pheric air in the lungs that which the brain does not 
need, therefore it can not impart to the egg elements 
foreign to its chemical divisions. Thus each brain 
center creates in the egg a chemical nucleus corres- 
ponding to its own center. Each division thus created 
in the germ is a magnet, which as soon as the neces- 
sary conditions are supplied, is ready to begin the 
work of organizing its part of the animal body. 

The brain of the male operates the same as that 
of the female, in producing his fecundating forces; 
when the egg receives the male principle, every center 
in it becomes fertilized. Thus it can be seen that the 
egg can not possess a greater nor a less number of cen- 
ters than is possessed by the brain of the fowl which 
produced it; neither can the male bird produce fecun- 



98 INCUBATION. 

dating forces to accommodate a greater nor a less 
number of centers than those of the fowl belonging to 
his own species, for his elements must correspond iden- 
tically with those of the egg, or they will not unite. 

If from any cause either of the divisions of the 
female brain fails to supply a sufficiency of its forces 
to perfect its nucleus in the egg, that division will not 
receive the male elements, consequently the egg will 
not incubate. The male principle, too, might be de- 
fective in some particular, which would destroy its 
effect, therefore the egg would not fertilize when com- 
ing in contact with the spermatazoa, consequently it 
would not attract stellar gases; but if the egg is per- 
fect in all its parts then it will hatch. 

The brains of fowls belonging to different species 
slightly vary in their chemical structure, consequently 
in their chemical affinities, and, therefore, will only 
receive the combination of gases peculiar to them- 
selves, which alone will produce forms characteristic 
of their own. 

The turkey has a head adorned to correspond with 
its genus; consequently it must have a brain capable 
of throwing out a nerve branch to create its head gear, 
and also to produce in its egg the chemical centers 
necessary to produce the brain. What is true of one 
is true of all other fowls. 

Now we understand the nature of the thing to be 
incubated. It is, therefore, in order to explain the 
process of its development. 

Process. — At one time it was generally supposed 
that eggs must be covered by a fowl, and thus receive 



INCUBATION. 99 

animal heat, in order to induce them to hatch. But 
science laid that idea gently aside by demonstrating 
with a heated oven the fact that animal heat is not 
necessary to produce incubation. The egg in its per- 
fect form is now placed into the incubator properly 
prepared to receive it. The heat warms it through, 
when the process of attraction begins and develop- 
ment commences where it left off. 

The the nuclei in the egg was formed in the 
fowl, by the zodiacal laws, and now the same forces 
continue their work of development. As the world 
revolved on its axis, each nucleus attracted in their 
regular order, until the brain was formed. One branch 
developes the heart, another the lungs, and still an- 
other the kidneys, and so on, till the entire organism 
is perfected, at which juncture the magnets in the egg 
become consumed and must be supplied otherwise, in 
order to continue the growth. 

At this point of development the chick grows 
hungry and, in pecking for food, breaks through its 
shell. The oxygen rushes in and invigorates the new 
life, when it struggles to free itself from its covering, 
to begin a new form of existence. It now takes food, 
and new magnets are formed in the blood, which at- 
tract their stellar affinities, and life continues. 
Nerves, thrown out from the brain, form every part of 
the body and develop every pecularity of the fowl. 
The brain of the chick sends out nerve branches cor- 
responding to the number of nuclei it possesses. The 
duck sends out nerve branches corresponding to the 



100 INCUBATION. 

nuclei it posseses. The former has five toes and a 
round beak. The latter has web-feet and a fiat 
beak. The duck does not have nerves in its beak be- 
cause the beak is flat, but because the nerves grew and 
formed it that w T ay. For the same reason it has webs 
between its toes. Species will not cross; therefore, 
their differences must alway remain the same. 




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CHAPTER XII. 
PROTOPLASn 



I will now explain the process of creating physical 
life, which began with the protoplasm. 

First, let the reader get the right understanding of 
its nature, before he tries to comprehend the results of 
its growth. Then the whole lesson will be clear and 
comprehensible. Protoplasm, scientific men tell us, is 
composed of oxygen, hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen; 
but I am of the opinion that it contains many more 
than four elements. In fact, I know that the original 
protoplasm did, because life came from the proto- 
plasm, and human life contains many more than four 
elements. When manufactured in the laboratory of 
the chemist it may contain only four gases, but per- 
fectly developed protoplasm, capable of producing 
human life, contains no less number than twelve dif- 
ferent chemical elements. The egg of the fowl is 
known to contain ten or more elements. Protoplasm 
from which evolved the human body, could not con- 
tain a less number of gases than the goose egg and 
produce a higher form of life than the goose. 

In the National Museum there are on exhibition 
vessels containing the following named ingredients 
which are found in the human body of the average 
man, w T ho weighs 154 lbs. A large glass jar holds the 



102 PROTOPLASM. 

ninety-six pounds of water which his body contains. 
In other receptacles are nine pounds of white of egg, a 
little less than ten pounds of pure glue, thirty-four and 
one-half pounds of fat, eight and one-quarter pounds 
of phosphate of lime, one pound of carbonate of lime, 
three ounces of sugar and starch, seven ounces of fluor- 
ine of calcium, six ounces of phosphate of magnesia 
and a little ordinal y table salt. 

Divided up into his primary chemical elements 
the same man is found to contain ninety-seven pounds 
of oxygen, enough to take up, under ordinary atmos- 
pheric pressure, the space of a room ten feet long, ten 
feet wide and ten feet high. His body also holds fif- 
teen pounds of hj'drogen, which, under the same con- 
ditions, would occupy somewdiat more than two such 
rooms as that described. To these must be added 
three pounds and thirteen ounces of nitrogen. The 
carbon in the corpus of the individual referred to is 
represented by a foot cubic of coal. It ought to be a 
diamond of the same size, because that stone is pure 
carbon, but the National Museum has not such a one 
in its possession. A row of bottles contain the other 
elements going to make up a man. These are four 
ounces of chlorine, three and one-half ounces of 
fluorine, eight ounces of phosphorus, three and one- 
half ounces of brimstone, two and one-half ounces of 
sodium, two and one-half ounces of potassium, one- 
tenth of an ounce of iron, two ounces of magnesium 
and three pounds and thirteen ounces of calcium. 

Calcium, at present market rates, is w r orth $300 an 
ounce, so that the amount of it contained in one ordin- 



PROTOPLASM. 103 

ary human body, has a money value of $18,300. Few 
of our fellow-citizens realize that they are worth so 
much intrinsically. What makes this metal so costly, 
is the difficulty of separating it from the elements with 
which it is found combined in nature. 

It seems odd to know that four of the constituents 
of the human body will take fire by spontaneous com- 
bustion. Everybody knows how quickly phosphorus 
will do that when dry. A scrap of sodium, on being 
thrown into hot water or upon ice, will burst into a 
rosy flame. Potassium acts similarity; but w r ith 
greater violence. On touching water it flames up, and 
at length explodes, throwing a mountain of sparks in- 
to the air. Magnesium, which is used in the form of 
powder for flashlights by photographers, is so readily 
and fiercely combustible that it has to be kept tightly 
corked in bottles. 

The growth of the protoplasm is necessary in 
order to accumulate the required combination of ele- 
ments to produce life; for until the necessary number 
in sufficient quantities are gathered together in a single 
body, nature cannot differentiate any form of life; 
hence the necessity for protoplasm. 

It is generally supposed that protoplasm grew 
from its own volition, and that from that growth 
sprang life; but the reverse is the case. It would be 
just as logical to say the placenta was produced that 
the child might be created, as to say the protoplasm 
was produced prior to the germ. The germ of life 
was formed first, that the protoplasm might be pro- 



104 PROTOPLASM 

dueed. As the vital parts of the ^erm were gathering 
their forces, preparatory to forming organized life, 
much refuse, crude matter necessarily formed about 
the germ, to protect it during its growth; hence the 
production of the protoplasm. 

Protoplasm, like all physical matter, grew from a 
small beginning, and of course made considerable 
growth before taking any definite form or manifesting 
any active life, since that was and is nature's method 
of producing all forms of life. There must be a cer- 
tain amount of growth before protoplasm can receive 
and retain a sufficient quantity of stellar forces to 
create the object of its growth, however small that 
object may be. Show to a man who has never seen a 
walnut, pear, or an ear of corn, and ask him how they 
came into existence. If he knew nothing about them 
he would be at a loss to give any explanation for their 
growth. If he was from a country that produced only 
toad-stools, potatoes and pumpkins, he would very 
naturally conclude that the ear of corn was pushed up 
through the soil, like a toad-stool, or grew on a vine, 
like a pumpkin. If, however, he was a philosopher he 
would know that a vegetable growth of some kind was 
produced before the corn could grow; but he could not 
describe the form of the growth, the size of the plant, 
nor the texture of the stalk. 

In the animal kingdom the same law exists. A 
growth of some kind was necessary before animal life 
could be developed. It came in the form of proto- 
plasm. It grew a formless thing till it reached a cer- 



PROTOPLASM. 105 

tain degree of development, when differentiation took 
place. But now we want to know the character of the 
life, or the degree of intelligence atoms of matter pos- 
sess under the necessary conditions, to prompt them 
to unite in producing the original protoplasm. 

Explanation. — Atoms, like the people which they 
create, possess strange -characteristics, for they will 
not all, when under apparently the same conditions, 
unite in the same way to produce the same effect. 
Those gases only which possess affinities for each 
other will affiliate; but whether the virtue of the asso- 
ciation lies in the peculiar form of the atoms com- 
posing the body in question, in the affinity of the 
atoms themselves (if any one knows what that means), 
or in the degree of intelligence they possess, is yet to 
be learned. But the latter I maintain to be true. 
Nevertheless, that intelligence must be directed by 
some other than the innate force, which atoms possess, 
before they will embrace each other in producing 
growth; and that director or directors are no other 
than the zodiacal and planetary bodies. Protoplasm 
was not a divine conception, but a mundane produc- 
tion and manufactured out of stellar dust, and not 
mundane dust. These gases were induced to unite by 
the combined efforts of three agents of the earth, as fol- 
lows: 1st, heat; 2nd, moisture; 3rd, motion. 

Doubtless it never occurred to the reader that the 
motion of the earth on its axis ever had or now has 
anything to do with producing and sustaining life; 
yet, that is one of her most important functions i n 



3.06 PROTOPLASM. 

that particular, since the brain can receive gases only 
when in certain positions relating to division whence 
they come. Then, in order to occupy all of the posi- 
tions, the rotation of the earth on its axis is necessary. 
If the earth had no diurnal motion, protoplasm could 
not have formed. Consequently higher forms of life 
could not have been produced originally; neither could 
they have been reproduced subsequently; nor could 
life now exist on the globe. Should the earth stop 
now at high noon, when the sun, the supposed giver of 
life, is in the mid-heaven in all his glory, all life 
would soon become extinct; the embrio would die in 
its mother's womb, even if the mother herself should 
longer survive, which is not probable, for the reason that 
the adult depends as much on the zodiacal gases for 
life as does the embrionic form. Therefore, the motion 
of the earth on its axis is necessary to the existence of 
all life. Moisture was necessary to prepare the zodi- 
acal gases for their union, for gases will not unite in 
a growth of any sort without it; while the motion of 
the earth on its axis was necessary to bring any given 
point on the earth's surface in contact with each and 
every degree of the zodiacal belt once every twenty- 
four hours, in order to complete the conditions. 

The perfect protoplasm to all appearances, is a 
homogeneous mass of matter; but nevertheless, 
it was as perfectly organized in its chemical structure 
as is the egg in the shell. On receiving the necessary 
impulse it grew apace, and finally took form, which 
afterwards became animated. It was just as easy for 



PROTOPLASM. 107 

nature to produce animal life alter protoplasm was 
created as it now is for her to produce life from the egg 
after it has been laid. Moreover it v as com- 

patible with nature's laws to produce protoplasm when 
the earth was at its proper degree of temperature for 
that purpose as it now is for her to pre i egg in 

the fowl. .It is conceded by ail that the fowl produces 
the egg within her own organism independently of 
nature's external laws, but she does not. since she has- 
no power to reproduce apart from them. She only 
perpetuates the conditions which the earth possessed at 
the time of its original ancestors. The egg is only a 
protoplasm produced by nature through the agency of 
the fowl, and not by the fowl herself. The nucleus . 
which forms the brain of the original progenitors 
is retained by all fowls of like species, subseq- 
uently reproduced, which enabled nature to repro- 
duce similar nuclei in the egg of any given fowl. The 
brain of the fowl, like all other brains, is composed of 
chemical divisions or brain centers, and each center 
supplies its essence to the egg. 

Life Forces. — As previously explained, each 30 
degrees of the Zodiac throws out the combination of 
gases peculiar to itself and different from the other 
eleven divisions of that belt, and which form an at- 
traction to the oarth. Furthermore, each one of the 
twelve divisions create a separate chemical division in 
the brain. It further appears that each degree of the 
specific division supplies a slightly different combina- 
tion of gases from the other degrees from the 



108 PROTOPLASM. 

same division; therefore, when a nucleus begins to form 
out of the elements belonging to any degree of anj r 
specific sign: that degree determines the character of 
the nucleus of the brain subsequently formed, because 
it determines the combination of gases demanded 
from the other Zodiacal divisions in producing 
life. It having affinities peculiar to itself requires 
certain other elements in order to complete its work. 
Each degree of the zodiac is different; therefore, ail 
the elements from the other degrees will not affiliate 
with any given one. 

The union of the first two atoms which unite to 
form the first epinucleus was ihe beginning. This 
epinucleus holds the ruling position in the com-? 
.pleted nuclius of the brain, which now resides in the 
protoplasm. Thus the nucleus began at the rising of 
the twentieth degree of Gemini, then the epinucleus 
created from the >f that division of the Zodiac 

would hold a commanding influence in the nucleus, 
and thus control the organization of all the elements 
subsequently added to it. Should a nucleus form at 
the 20th degree of Le >, or any other degree ox that or 
any other division, the brain thus formed would differ 
from all other brains produced from other degrees of the 
zodiacal divisions, because each degree has a different 
affinity from all others, and therefore, would attract 
other combination of elements to it. The first nucleus 
is now formed and gathers as it goes As the world re- 
volves on its axis this epinucleus is carried through 
the prases from the next division of the heavens — which 



PROTOPLASM. 109 

is Cancer. During the time the point on the earth at 
which the protoplasm is now being formed, is passing 
through this division, a second epinucleus is being 
formed and becomes attracted to the first; as these two 
are being carried through the elements of the succeed- 
ing division. Leo, another epinuclei is formed and 
becomes associated with the former one. Again, while 
the three are being carried through the elements from 
the next division the fourth nucleus is formed and finds 
its place in the association of the other centers and 
thus the process went on; till the earth had made one 
diurnal revolution, and that point on its surface had 
passed through all of the elements from each and all 
of the twelve zodical divisions, and each had complet- 
ed its epinncleus, and all of them were united to com- 
plete the perfect working nucleus of life which is com- 
posed of twelve minute chemical brain centers. 

The process required twenty-four hours for nature 
to complete her work thus far. Since it requires that 
length of time for the earth to complete one diurnal 
revolution. During the next twenty-f our hours, while 
the earth was revolving, and carrying the nuclius thus 
formed through the same forces, more off them would 
added to each nuclei, and thus growth continued. This 
process was daily repeated until a complete protoplasm 
or egg was formed and fructified. How long it requir- 
ed for nature to produce the egg is not known; but at 
this point new forces entered intethe protoplasm where 
embriotic life began. Still the process of growth 
was continued, for the embrio thus formed could 



110 PROTOPLASM. 

not further developed without being supplied with 
the same combination of zodiacal gases as the origin- 
al. As soon as sufficient brain force was concentrated 
each brain center threw out a branch of the nervous 
system, each of which has an individuality of its 
own. yet. they all worked harmoniously together, 
in producing the body. The cranial nerves are named 
as follows: 

1st. Olfactory Xerves serve to convey the special 
sense of smell to the brain. 

2nd. Optic Nerves produce the eyes, convey 
vibrations, blight and impart the sense of sight. 

3rd. Auditory supplies vitality to the ear drum 
and conveys the sound vibration to the brain. 

4th. Motor Occuli helps to control the eyes, teeth, 
jaw and tongue. 

5th. Pathetieus assists to supply the brain force 
to the muscles of the eyes. 

6th. Motor Exterminis also performs an oracular 
function. 

7th. The Fifth pair performs a facial function, and 
control in part, the jaw, lips and nasal organs. 

8th. Glosso Pharyngeal assists in controling the 
tongue and mouth. 

9th. Facial Nerves control the action of the face 
and ears. 

10th. Pneumogastric supports the heart, stomach 
and liver. 

11th. Spinal Accessory control the muscles which 
rules the actions of the lung when talking or straining. 

12th. Hypo-glossal assists in controling the tongue. 

As these and the spinal nerves advanced, bones, 
cords, flesh, and all the internal and vital organs were 
produced. 



PROTOPLASM. Ill 

The heart was formed first to regulate the flow of 
the blood as soon as it became necessary, for the 
heart is not a force-pump to produce circulation ; but 
a regulator to govern it's flow; for circulation began 
before the heart was formed. 

The blood is composed of atoms which possess 
force, and so long as new forces are being taken into 
the blood by inhalation the blood will flow, for force 
and motion are innate in matter. At the expiration 
of nine months the life had so far advanced in its de- 
velopment that it required more nourishment than 
nature could supply through the circulatory system of 
its crude mother, therefore it was freed from its proto- 
plastic parents, to survive or perish as the stars of 
fate might determine; but as nutricious food was 
easily obtained in those very productive times, the 
stars of fate favored them; for life of all kinds sprang 
spontaneously into existence, upon which the early 
discoverers of the earth rapaciously fed, flourished 
and became mighty. The}^ were not so particular 
then as now, in their. bread and butter regime. They 
had not yet learned to demand broiled beef-steak for 
breakfast, a morning cocktail for an appetizer, four 
courses for dinner, and oysters on the half-shell for 
supper. For breakfast the}^ probably took mush 
straight, prepared in the luke-warm elements in the 
murky marsh. Neither were they so fastidious then 
in their table etiquette as their fine haired descend- 
ents are now. Fingers were made before forks, and 
doubtless were used to fish worms out of the mud, and 



112 PROTOPLASM. 

to catch the juicy bug on which to feast before they 
discovered beef-steak and the methods of preparing it, 
and the upper and nether stone for grinding grain, as 
well as the methods of mixing and baking the hoe 
and the Johnny cake, the unleavened bread and the 
light loaf, the soda and Carolina biscuits, the French, 
German and the hot roils; the waffle, buckwheat 
cakes, fritters. Yankee dough-nuts, etc., etc. 

Species. — Human life new requires ten moons for 
the zodiacal brain to develop; therefore, it is presum- 
ably true that it requires exactly that length of time 
for the protoplasm, after it was fructified, to develop 
human form. 

Whether the species date from the beginning of 
the nucleus or not till after its growth and fructifica- 
tion, by other elements not incorporated in the original 
protoplasm, is yet unknown; but I am persuaded to 
think that the moment the nuclei of the protoplasm 
is completed by the first revolution of the earth on its 
axis, the specie is determined; for there appears to be 
no reason for a germ thus begun to change its organi- 
zation, nor its original combination of elements, since 
the conditions were ever favorable for the continuation 
of its growth since it had begun, tor it could receive, 
without interruption, gases from the same source of 
supply as that which originated the twelve epinuclei. 
In fact they could not change, as shown in the devel- 
opment of the egg of a fowl in which the growth is 
arrested at the time it is laid, and it may not be 
resumed for weeks, vet no change occur? in its attrac- 



PROTOPLASM. 113 

tive power, nor the result of its incubation, because 
the conditions favorable to its further development 
have, for the time being, ceased, does not change iis 
magnetic force nor cause it to lose its power of attrac- 
tion for zodiacal gases, for as soon as the necessary 
conditions by the incubator are restored the process ox 
development is resumed, and goes on the same as 
though it had not been arrested. This question might 
now arise: why are the conditions not changed by the 
cessation of the development in tt 
the work ? 

The answer is easy so far as species are concerned, 
for the same zodiacal laws would take up their work 
of development just where they left off. and proceed 
with as much precision in the process of evolution as 
an old lady would when she resumed her knitting 
where she left oft a day or week previous. 

The ruling epinucleus would still preside over the 
development of the chemical center. Then, when heat 
was applied, and the earth had reached a point at 
which it could receive the required elements which 
most likely would be at the degree of rising when the 
eg c ^ was perfectly formed before it was laid. Here 
nature would resume her work and proceed as though 
she had not been interrupted, for which reason I must 
conclude that species began with the nucleus of the 
protoplasm. If it did not then the protoplasm might 
produce any species of life. On the same principle an 
egg might produce any species of the feathered flock 
by nature changing the chemical conditions of the e^g 



114 PROTOPLASM. 

by adding or withholding at any time one or more of 
the chemical elements belonging to it, which being 
true, the species of the fowl would not depend on the 
character of the egg, but upon the chemical con- 
stituents of the spermatozao of the male, which sup- 
plies the fortifying forces. If the egg was a homogen- 
eous mass of chemical elements the male of any fowl 
could fertilize the egg of any other fowl, and then 
reproduce his own or perhaps any other species: there- 
fore the common hen might produce a guinea, a goslin. 
or a grouse, and a goose might produce a canary bird 
or a pewee. a crow or a pelican, or a new species. 
Consequently, no law or order could be maintained in 
the production of life; but as the laws now exist the 
epinucleu^ which are first formed in the egg. as pre- 
viously described, determines just what the species 
shall be and plainly show why they continue the same 
and can not be changed. 

The foregoing rules will hold good in regard to form. 
but not in regard to intelligence, for the simple reason 
that the zodiacal laws rule the development of the 
physical form or species, and. since they never change 
their relative positions to one another, they may sus- 
pend at the laying of the egg, and again resume their 
work of development at any time within a given limit 
with no inconvenience, delay or confusion of forces. 
But since the planets rule the growth of the brain, 
which produces the intellectual faculties, their effect 
is different at different times, since they are continu- 
ally changing their relative positions and aspects to 



PROTOPLASM. 115 

one another; and. as the planetary brain is produced 
after birth, it does make a difference when a chick is 
hatched or a child is born, and the latter in particular. 
That the epinucleus of a protoplasm, which formed at 
the rising of a given degree of the zodiacal belt, pro- 
duced animal form may leave in the mind of thought- 
ful readers the impression that only 365 species of 
animal life could be produced, since that is the num- 
ber of degrees in the zodiacal belt. It will be necessary 
to explain further. 

The reader must remember that the earth's orbit 
varies a little in performing its cycle, which requires 
29 years. This variation from the exact latitude and 
declination relative to other planets, might change the 
combination of elements which composed the first 
epinucleus, and, consequently, the other eleven, and 
thus produce different species, even under the same 
longitudinal degree of the zodiac; which being true, 
would account for the multiplicity of species found 
on the earth even if there was no other explanation 
to be given; but, since the temperature of the earth 
was constantly changing, species may be accounted for 
otherwise. Different degrees of temperature might, 
and doubtless did, cause different combinations of 
gases to unite in forming the various species, since 
the combinations are not all affected alike by the same 
degree of temperature. 

The nucleus formed when the earth was at its 
greatest degree of heat that would produce life. 
Nature created the largest and most tender animals, 



116 PROTOPLASM. 

many of which could not survive the chemical and 
climatic changes which the earth has since pa 
through, hence became extinct. As the temperature 
of the earth ran down during the process of cooling. 
different on the gases were produced, so that 

many and varied were the nucleus re it 

reached a degree that would produce nothing hh 
than the insect life. The life-producing period of the 
world 3 of years, and millions 

of S] n produced, which were unable 

to i yueiitly, their species were lose at 

their death. Strong evidence in favor oi this apparent 
fact is that there are barren animals among all species; 
then, if in reproducing nature fails to perfect one of 
her species, she may have failed to have perfected some 
of her original creatures. Besides, thousands of species 
may have been produced, lived for a time, and finally 
became extinct without leaving any trace of their 
former existence. 

A very natural supposition is that the interference 
of the sun's heat would have made the earth too hot 
to incubate any species of life; but this point is ex- 
plained when it is remembered that 108 degrees is 
incubating heat, and that when the earth was at that 
degree of temperature water would evaporate very 
rapidly, and thus keep dense clouds in the air. for the 
clouds would have to become very dense before they 
would condense for the want of cold currents, which 
could not exist when the whole surface of the earth 
was hot. These clouds would obstruct the sun's ravs- 



PROTOPLASM. 117 

and prevent them from reaching the earth; but as 
time rolled on heat grew less, and cold currents were 
created; clouds condensed and rain fell in toi rents. 
Thus were the clouds dispelled, while the sun was 
permitted to pour his violent rays with full force 
upon the earth which made the days intensely hot 
and the nights cool, which had the effect to bring the 
period of life- producing to a close, after which ail 
animal life must be perpetuated by the sex-process, 
and incubation for mother earth had passed her change. 



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CHAPTER XIV. 



REPRODUCTION. 



In the reproduction of animal life nature works just 
the same in the human organism as she did when the 
earth alone supplied the conditions of heat and 
moisture. Though her apparatus was more crude in 
all of its appointments, nevertheless results were just 
the same. 

The beginning of animal life in the animal organ- 
ism is the union of the first two atoms of matter in 
forming the first epinucleus of the ovum, for the 
human ovum is made up of twelve chemical centers, 
just the same as was the first protoplasm. The ovum 
represents the germ of the original protoplasm, and is 
produced by the same zodiacal laws in the same 
manner as the first protoplasm was organized and 
assisted by the same conditions only supplied through 
different channels. The earth supplied the heat then; 
the mother supplies the necessary temperature now. 
The only difference is that nature was then creating 
species, and trying the best she knew to create as 
many variations from a given form as it was possible 
for her to produce. All she can now do is to reproduce 
the surviving species which she created long ago. 

Conception. — Just what the process is which 
nature employs in the reproduction of animal life 
can not be known except by the same mode of reason- 



REPRODUCTION. 119 

ing as that employed in determining the beginning of 
original life, since there can be no starting-point 
after the union of the first two atoms, which began the 
formation of the ovum; but when that occurred cannot 
be known. 

If it is true, as Drs. Dalton and Hollock have in- 
formed their readers, that the ova were formed prior 
to the birth of the mother the difficulty of the problem 
increases, since it cannot be known whether the ova 
began to form the first day, the first week, the first 
month, or later on in gestation; whether they all be- 
gan their existence at the same or different times, 
therefore the facts must remain a secret with nature. 

Doubtless the ova nuclei, be they few or many, 
are formed prior to birth, and out of zodiacal gases, 
assisted by the sun and moon for the following reasons: 

1st. The zodiacal brain was formed at that time 
for which reason, I judge, the ova also were formed 
at the same time, and partly composed of similar matter 
and produced in connection with certain brain layers 
at a certain stage of their development. I further 
judge that the layers were affected by the sun and 
moon while the ova were forming. I infer this 
from the fact that it requires 28 days for the moon to 
complete her zodiacal revolution, which is the menstrual 
period. Then, after birth and maturity, the moon rules 
the disposition of the ova, and since it requires that 
length of time for the ovum to ripen, it is presum- 
ably true that the moon is the prime factor in the 
matter of controling the perfecting of the ova. The 



120 REPRODUCTION. 

ovum will not develop only to a certain point without 
assistance, which I judge must be rendered by planetary 
forces, and these forces are supplied in the spermatazoa 
which I also judge to be composed principally of 
planetary gases, since it is constantly accumulating 
in the male organs. When the sperm is received the 
ovum takes on new life, and begins a new series of 
evolutions. 

2d. The idiotic female will reproduce, though her 
brain possesses very little of the planetary matter 
which is evidence that a highly developed zodiacal 
brain is not necessary to the development of the ova. 
Thus it appears that nature can create an ovum to a 
point that will produce life, even when the planetary 
gases are almost wholly absent from the zodiacal 
brain of the mother; but developing it to a point 
which will impregnate does not imply that it is as 
strong and magnetic as nature can make it. any more 
than the germinating of a given seed implies that it 
is as perfect as nature can make seeds. 

Thus it can be seen that there are different degrees 
of vitality in the germs of all life. If an abundance 
of planetary matter was necessary to produce 
ova all intellectual females would produce them 
highly developed, since it is presumably true that 
the zodiacal brain during their development con- 
sume more of the planetary gases than does that of 
the idiotic mother, because they produce a healthier 
tronger zodiacal brain in their offspring, and attracts 
more planetary matter. 



REPRODTCTION. 121 

I further judge that after birth the condition of the 
ovum, when perfectly developed, determines in a meas- 
ure the power of the brain produced from it, and that 
the quality and condition of the zodiacal brain of the 
mother at different periods during its development, 
determines the perfect or imperfect condition of the 
ovum formed at the same time. I further judge that 
a well developed vital ova, to produce its best results, 
must be quickened by a healthy vital sperm. If the 
male sperm is deficient in any way the ovum cannot 
produce its best results, since its full force of attrac- 
tion is not supplied. •One ovum being more perfectly 
developed and vitalized than another may account in 
part for the different degrees of strength and in- 
telligence found in children of the same parents, for 
there is a vast difference in them. Some parents pro- 
duce some good, some bad, some strong, and some 
weakly and weakminded children. Other parents 
cannot produce children above the average, while 
some women cannot produce them at all, which ie 
evidence that it is not the general strength of the 
system which gives the reproductive power. 

If the statement made by doctor F. Holleck is 
true, that the average number of ova possessed by 
females varies from 15 to 30, that explodes the pre- 
vailing idea that one ovum escapes each menstrual 
period. If only 30 ovums exist then less than three 
years would be sufficient time to dispose of the entire 
number at the rate of 13 per year. Just where the 
error lies I cannot inform the reader. Just how and 



122 REPRODUCTION. 

at what times the ova are formed may never be 
known; but doubtless each one is formed during differ- 
ent periods in gestation, and that each is expelled 
from the ovaries in the order of its creation, and em- 
ployed in producing life in the order and in accordance 
with the law of its development, for doubtless each 
ovum is developed by a seperate layer of brain matter, 
and disposed of by the influence of the moon. The 
strength of the organism of the individual ovum can- 
not be known only by the force of the planets operating 
at the time of conception. If the mother conceives un- 
der benific planetary influences, it is safe to judge that 
the ovum employed at that time was well organized, 
healthy and strong; but if she conceives under malific 
planetary forces, the reverse may be judged. Ova of 
different vital forces are possessed by all mothers. 

If ovums are not organized previous to conception, 
then they must depend solely on the spermatic fluid and 
planetary forces for their organization, and also their 
condition after birth, which certainly is not the case. 

When the ovum passes from the ovaries to the 
matrix it is then ripe, and has progressed as far as 
nature can develop it in the female organs without 
assistance. If, while yet in the womb, it receives 
spermatazoa, then new life is infused into its cells, but 
if the male principle is not supplied the ovum passes 
out and is dissolved. The ovum is sometimes im- 
pregnated in the ovaries. If that was always the case 
it would account for there being only 30 ova. If 
that was true, then no ovum would be forced from the 



REPRODUCTION. 123 

ovaries until impregnated ; consequently, all per- 
fect ova would produce life ; but from my own 
knowledge I can dispute that point, for I have 
known them to escape from both single and married 
females. 

After conception takes place the organization of 
the life forces commence in earnest, and the germ now 
turns to the electrified walls of the womb for zodiacal 
forces to enable it to resume its development. What 
the germ demands the heavens supply through the 
agency of the mother's brain and blood. The womb 
being connected to the brain by nerve branches, the 
embrio can receive the brain forces or stellar fluid 
directly from the brain and blood since it requires 
both of those agents to gather and supply forces to 
any and all parts of the body as well as to the womb, 
which is the reason why disturbing the womb in its 
work affects the brain and why an abortion sometimes 
causes death. 

As fast as the earth revolves on its axis, the 
mother inhales the zodiacal gases, the blood receives 
them, and the brain absorbs them and sends them 
over the nerves to the womb, where they are received 
by the foetus ; thus cell after cell is formed and life 
advances. 

It is claimed by physicians that the mother's 
blood does not pass through the walls of the womb to 
sustain the embrio, but only a clear fluid is then re- 
ceived by it. Which being true, makes my argument 
still stronger, since the existing embrio must, like tha 



124 REPRODUCTION. 

protoplastic embrio, manufacture its own blood as it 
is required. The germ from the beginning receives 
only zodiacal and planetary gases. 

The process of growth in the human body is just 
the same as that in the egg in the incubator, except, 
1st. that all of the gases used in the growth of the 
foetus must first pass into the mother's blood and go 
to the brain before it can reach the embrio; 2d, that 
the egg of the fowl supplies all of the necessary fluid 
for the development of the chick; the cicatricula, or 
the little white speck, is the germ, which contains all 
the magnets of attraction, the white and yellow parts 
are the food, absorbed by the germ in fts growth. 
Thus the food is stored in the right quantity and 
quality to supply each division with just what it 
needs for the magnets to attract the stellar fluids, 
necessary to develop the chick without waste or 
overplus. 

The human egg, not being supplied with food in 
the same manner as that of the fowl, requires a special 
apparatus for that purpose after generation begins, 
hence the placenta and its contents. After a time the 
brain grows strong enough to take on celestial gases 
in sufficient amount to send out a nervous system. 
The brain being composed of 12 centers throws out as 
many bundles of nerves. As they advance in length 
they build the body and differentiate it into human 
form. 

Brain is the Root. — The brain of all animals 
is the first part of the body to develop, and it grows 



BRAIN IS THE ROOT. 125 

proportionately large; but I think no reason has yet 
been given by physiologists for this so-called strange 
development. The reason I shall assign is as follows: 
The brain is the root which throws out the branches 
of the nervous system, which are necessary to construct 
the physical organism; for without the brain first 
there can be no differentiation; consequently, no vital 
organs nor body produced. For the foregoing reasons 
the brain must grow large that it may store up force 
in sufficient quantities to supply nerve-growth to pro- 
duce the organs and the various other parts of the 
body of the foetus. After the brain had become suffi- 
ciently developed to have the necessary strength to 
produce the vital organs the pneumogastric and other 
nerves were extended the required length for that 
purpose, at which juncture organs were formed. The 
heart was formed first, at the lower end of the Cardie 
Plexus, and the circulation of the blood continued, it 
having been established before the heart had received 
the impulse of life; finally other organs were formed, 
while the embrio continued to grow. After the spinal 
cord had extended the necessary length, the nerve 
which it encased protruded, and began the work of 
forming the vertebra. I think the general under- 
standing is. according to Moses, that the original 
frame was constructed, and holes bored in the joints 
for the nerves to creep through on their way to the 
extremities, as scientific men tell us, for the purpose 
of establishing telegraphic communication of the ex- 
tremities with the brain. While thev answer that 



126 BRAIN IS THE ROOT. 

purpose, that was not the design. The nerves were 
sent out from the brain to construct the body, conse- 
quently they produced the bones which formed about 
them in gristly-like substance, but later on ossified, 
and finally became solid. Then, when the flesh and 
marrow were removed, the apperture left in the frame 
appeared as though they were created only to accom- 
modate the nerves in giving them easy passage to the 
extremities. 

At the expiration of the allotted period for the 
development of the vital organs to a point which 
would enable them to perform the necessary functions 
of life, unassisted by the mother, the new being was 
released from its parental prison to continue life in a 
new form. Thus was life reproduced, simply, system- 
atically and scientifically, even though man is ''won- 
derfully and fearfully made." So, I understand* 
physicians claim that the human embrio is a pari- 
site, and has no connection with the mother, because 
it will sometimes form in the ovaries, and fall down 
inside of the abdomen, and stick to the w T alls, and 
grow T outside of the womb, which being true, plainly 
proves that nature does the work through the agency 
of the mother, and thus creates the child. It is only 
necessary for the germ to get access to the mother 
nerves in order to make a growth. It is not perfect, 
however, for a placenta, out of its natural case, m 
too rude to supply perfect conditions, hence the im- 
perfect growth. 



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BRAIN IS THE ROOT. 127 

The Menses themselves are caused by a waste 
necessarily produced by an unusual effort of the brain 
in supplying magnetic forces in preparing the germ 
receptfctbLfor gestation, which, doubtless, is to give the 
necessary strength to the matrix to do its work well. 
It is know T n to be highly electrified at this time. And 
there is no better reason for its condition. The brain 
not being able to properly magnetize the matrix may, 
in some cases, be the cause of barreness and the want 
of the power to retain the embrio through the entire 
period of gestation, because it has not the power to 
cling to the w T alls of the womb. 




CHAPTER XV. 
BLOOD CIRCULATION. 



The heart, we are told, is a force pump used by 
nature in driving the blood to all parts of the body, 
thus producing circulation; but if the criminal law 
will permit it, and the long-suffering public forgive 
the offense, I will here record a contrary statement to 
alleged facts, and subjoin my reasons for disputing 
the high authority that ha^ handed down from the 
days of Harvey, such a serious physiological error, for 
if the truth had long been know r n, the method of treat- 
ing diseases now might be very different, and perhaps 
more successful. 

In the first place, the heart of any human being 
does not possess half the pow r er necessary to force the 
blood one single time to the extremities of the human 
body, to say nothing of the pow r er required to keep the 
blood in motion for even twenty-four hours, without 
considering a long life-time, it must perform this 
laborious work without rest or repairs; but if the heart 
does perform this work there is no evidence to that 
effect only in the fact that the blood does circulate 
and the throbbing of the heart and the beating of the 
pulse are simultaneous; but with this evidence it 
might be a difficult task for the wisest physiologist in 
the land to tell w r hether it is the blood passing through 



BLOOD CIRCULATION. 129 

the heart that causes it to throb, or the throbbing of 
the heart that causes the blood to flow, if either is true. 

The former, however, is more reasonable than the 
latter. There is not a man in all Christendom who 
would believe that the heart could produce the circu- 
lation of blood after he had demonstrated the force 
necessary to be exerted by that organ in performing 
the work by using a rubber bulb in every way repre- 
senting the human heart, to force a fluid as thick as 
the human blood through as many rubber tubes of 
the same size and lengths as there are arteries and 
veins in the human body. Again, if the heart does 
perform this wonderful work, whence does it get its 
power of perpetual motion. It must be miraculously 
constructed to perform all this work of itself, with no 
motive power back of it. I believe there is none ex- 
plained by physiologists. Then again if it does per- 
form this work independently, what power stops its 
operations so suddenly, and thereby produces death 
in persons who were supposed to be in good health; also 
what causes the heart to be the only weak organ in 
some bodies and the only strong organ in other human 
bodies, since it produces its own force. These are 
interesting questions to have answered if the following 
explanations are wanting in truth. 

I believe, however, that the physiologists have 
agreed that there are microscopic capillaries in the 
veins that bear the burden of labor, and thus relieve 
the heart of that wonderful force it was supposed to 
possess. This explanation, however, only tends to 



130 BLOOD CIRCULATION 

mystify the subject still more, since it is only an 
assumption, and is not susceptible of proofs. 

It is not a pleasant thing for an intelligent man 
to say he believes a supposed truth without being able 
to give a reason for his belief, especially when there is 
none to be given, though he may sometimes be com- 
pelled to do so, but to assert that the circulation of 
the blood is produced by the action of the heart, is 
certainly without reason or scientific basis. It is hard 
enough to believe that the heart possesses muscular 
strength to perform the simple office of a valve 
operated by a known force, as the valve of a pump 
is employed by the engine running it in throwing 
water; but to say that the heart is automatic and 
produces the wonderful phenomenon of circulating 
the blood through the system, which would require 
an incalculable force, is certainly without reason or 
demonstration. 

From all the examinations the doctors have ever 
made they never have yet been able to discover any 
special department of the heart for the generating of 
force, which is necessary to produce circulation; some- 
times the heart becomes so very weak that it can 
scarcely beat at all, and yet circulation to the ex- 
tremities goes on. The heart will even stop beating 
for an unnatural length of time, and again resume its 
operations, which it could not do if self-operated; 
therefore we feel safe in saying that the heart does not 
produce the circulation at all. 

The blood is automatic, it being composed of 



BLOOD CIRCULATION. 131 

gases, is constantly kept in motion by taking on and 
throwing off its component elements. When the brain 
is in health the blood is kept in a highly charged 
magnetic condition which causes it to move rapidly 
through the body; but without a regulator it would 
flow too fast, or be irregular in its motion. 

To obviate this difficulty and to produce a regular 
circulation of the blood through the entire system, 
nature provided a check valve in the form of the heart, 
with its chambers of sufficient size to receive and dis- 
charge at necessary intervals enough blood to reduce 
its motion to a proper circulation to supply the de- 
mands of the whole system with magnetism, without 
loss of energy. This organ being connected to the 
brains, the great magnetic store-house and distributing 
office of the body, by nerves, its valves are operated 
by magnetic involuntary discharges from the brain at 
regular intervals, forcing the valves to open and close, 
receive and discharge regularly and continuously, 
thus producing a regular circulation. 

Resuscitation in case of suspended animation is 
strong evidence in favor of magnetic forces producing 
circulation. 

Artificial respiration forces into the blood mag- 
netism, which finds its way to the brain, which 
revives the organ of life and causes it to throw off 
magnetism, that finds its way to the heart and operates 
the valves admitting the blood into the chambers of 
the heart, from which it is discharged, thus repeating 
the operation till circulation is restored. 



132 3LOOD CIRCULATION. 

If life depended on the voluntary action of the 
heart, all efforts to restore life after the heart had 
ceased to beat would be without success, because the 
heart is supposed to be the life motor, and therefore 
could not be forced to beat after once withdrawing its 
forces. But, on the contrary, it has been forced to 
renew its action several minutes after life was sup- 
posed to have become extinct. 

Some physicians might object to this mode of 
reasoning, because the heart is the first organ to form 
in all animal bodies. In reply to this objection I will 
say that it is quite natural and reasonable that it 
should be so, since it is necessary to have blood and a 
regalar circulation first, and the heart second, which 
is always the case before the animal can be properly 
developed — blood first, the heart second, and other 
organs falling in line of development according to the 
order of their importance, the brain being the last, 
perhaps, developed, because the parent of the child 
performs before birth all the offices of the brain after 
birth; so this objection is answered, for the brain has 
no office to perform till after the child is born. 

The pendulum of the clock has nothing to do 
with operating the machineiy; it only determines the 
speed the wheels shall move. Just so w T ith the human 
heart, nature uses it as a regulator, and not as a motive 
power. 

It is well known that violent exercise will ac- 
celerate the motion of the blood, and also quicken the 
beating of the pulse, not because the heart acts first, 



BLOOD CIRCULATION. 133 

for it does not, it has no innate force, and therefore 
cannot act until impelled to do so by some existing 
force, and that force is magnetism, which is stored in 
the brain by the blood. 

The action of the diaphragm, which is instru- 
mental in operating the lungs, is involuntary, because 
it is produced by magnetism sent from the brain. The 
action of the lungs which causes breathing is also in- 
voluntary, because it is produced by magnetism sent 
from the brain. The action of the lungs which causes 
breathing is also involuntary, since being operated by 
the action of the diaphrapm. In the act of breathing 
the blood is kept in motion by absorbing stellar mag- 
netism from the lungs, consequently human existence 
is a voluntary action of natural forces, but involuntary 
human action. 

The human organism is so constructed that the 
functional operations will continue, even while man is 
wholly unconscious of his existence. The blood carries 
these magnetic forces to the brain, where they are 
stored and used by nature's voluntary agent, which 
operates the whole physical organization from that 
position, even producing thought and intelligence. 
The blood being the means of transportation, it is 
continually receiving magnetism at the lungs and dis- 
charging it at the brain. The brain in turn must re- 
lieve itself of the surplus force by dispatching it over 
the nerves to the vital organs as well as all other parts 
of the body. 

This act of the brain, or a portion of it, causes 



143 BLOOD CIRCULATION. 

each organ to perform its functions, whether man is 
asleep or awake, conscious or otherwise; so the mag- 
netic force from the brain to the heart keeps it in con- 
stant action, opening and closing its valves, thus per- 
mitting the blood to pass through, by which process 
life continues. This reduces the voluntary action of 
the body down to one force, and that is magnetic, the 
motive power of the universe. This being true, the 
heart beats fast or slow; first, according to the mag- 
netic condition of the nerve controlling that organ; 
second, according to the magnetic strength of the blood; 
and third, according to the degree of mental excite- 
ment brought to bear on the brain at any given time. 
The difference in the number of pulsations produced 
in any two given persons in health and repose during 
a stated time, is not very great, which goes to show 
that nature's voluntary work is not violent. So in 
order to produce a violent action of the body, the 
whole organism must become excited, but whether 
voluntary or otherwise, it must first occur at the 
brain through the human senses, or by means of 
stimulants, and not at the heart; which is evidence 
that the heart is not the prime mover in producing, 
sustaining life, and keeping up the circulation of the 
blood. 

The heart being connected to the brain by nerves, 
its valves are operated by magnetism sent from the 
brain. The blood being highly charged with magnet- 
ism gives it vivacity, which causes it to press the 
valves of the heart, which open, admit, close, and dis- 



BLOOD CIRCULATION. 135 

charge, at the dictates of the brain, when a strong, 
rapid pulse is felt in a healthy person; but any excite- 
ment of the brain will cause it to throw off more force, 
which quickens the action of the heart, and lets more 
blood pass through, thereby exciting the pulsations. 

The act of running makes the heart beat faster 
than usual; but the heart is not alone excited by the 
exercise of the body, all the vital organs are equally 
stimulated, but the others being not so sensitive to the 
effect of the magnetic force as the heart is, they are 
not felt to act with the same power. 

In order to produce the bodily exertion, the mind 
must first be excited, which increases the action of the 
brain and causes it to attract more magnetism, thus 
making increased demand on the blood for more power. 
The brain now dispatches rapidly to the heart for re- 
inforcements, the heart responds to the call by operat- 
ing its valves with greater rapidity than before, thus 
permitting the blood to flow faster to the lungs, where 
it is rapidly vitalized by stellar force, and, receiving 
new impetus, drives forward, supplying the brain and 
nerve center w^ith the necessary vitality to keep them 
in active operation. The brain stimulates the action 
of the diaphragm at the same time, thus increasing 
respiration, so that the whole machinery of the body 
acts simultaneously under the command of the brain. 
In proportion to the excitement, or the demand for 
increased forces, will the heart become animated and 
the whole physical structure become excited and ready 
for action. The man who is interested in his own 



136 BLOOD CIRCULATION. 

business can do much more than his employe with 
less fatigue, both being of equal strength, because the 
mind of the master, who is deeply interested in his 
work, is continually excited, thereby causing the brain 
to stimulate the heart, which accelerates the blood, 
thus furnishing the system with renewed strength. 
But in the uninterested man there is nothing in the 
business to stimulate the action of the heart; the blood 
is sluggish, and every movement is forced and labored,, 
and the body soon becomes tired. 

In delicate persons the heart sometimes fails to 
produce a pulsation when it throbs; the reason for this 
omission is that the brain being weak, it fails to 
supply to the heart a magnetic current strong enough 
to open the valve of the heart sufficiently to receive 
the usual quantity of blood. With no resisting force 
to check the action of the valve, it comes quickly back 
to place with a jar, thereby causing a fluttering of the 
pulse instead of a full beat. This double action of the 
valve taking place before admitting the blood to the 
chamber of the heart, will cause the blood to check its 
flow. A slight disturbance of mental forces excites 
the brain, which causes it to discharge additional 
forces, so that when the action of the valve is restored 
the pulses will become stronger and faster for a few 
beats, in order to let the surplus blood pass through to 
the lungs. 

Extreme fright will also cause the heart to omit 
one or more discharges of blood and then beat fast for 
a while to relieve the pressure at that organ. A fright- 



BLOOD CIRCULATION. 



causes the brain to become excited 
heart rapidly, causing it to perform i 
The most intense fright is caused w 1 
in a state of perfect composure, 
very regular and measured in its b' 
slow in motion. 

To excite the brain at such a 
discharge to the heart magnetic ' 
cession and causes an imperfe 
which prevents the blood from 
thus retards its circulation, 
caused by this check in th< 
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138 BLOOD CIRCULATION. 

can utilize. If the excitement would come on gradu- 
ally the brain and blood would act in concert without 
producing unpleasant sensations. The blood in its 
haste to return to the lungs finds its progress im- 
peded by the inability of the heart to pass it through. 
The heart cannot increase the size of its capacity, 
therefore, must perform extra labor by increased ac- 
tivity. While this is going on a fulness about the 
that organ is felt, but this feeling gradually passes 
away as the brain returns to its natural action, the 
blood to its normal condition. The body is then 
restored to its natural strength. A person of delicate 
organic structure may be frightened to death where 
the shock is sufficient to destroy the action of the brain 
ceils, and thus suspend the brain force, and prevent it 
from reaching the heart, which might easily be done 
where the brain center is weak, and the action of the 
heart imperfect. The brain may not lose its func- 
tional powers wholly, but life goes out before the blood 
can supply the necessary forces. Artificial respiration 
would, in some cases, restore life. But when the brain 
centers which support the heart are active and strong 
there is no danger of producing death because nature 
can rally her forces after the shock in time to save life. 
Wise men may say that circulation of the blood 
is produced by the heart, but that explanation is not 
satisfactory to any scientific man living, since there 
can be no solution given for its action. If the heart 
is automatic and supplies its own force, and, conse- 
quently, all the forces of the body, then what force 



BLOOD CIRCULATION. 13* 

can step in and arrest its action for an unnatural 
length of time and then allow it to resume its func- 
tional operations, which it not infrequently does? 

But in the absence of the true cause, this explana- 
tion has been allowed to follow in the wake of science 
to satisfy the longing for a perfect solution of the per- 
plexed problem. 

It is an easy matter to assert that it is an innate 
force of the heart that does the work, but to explain a 
force where none exists is quite another thing. But 
the magnetic force that rules and controls the action 
of the universe, impels planets forward in their courses 
with unvarying velocity, and sustains heavenly bodies 
in their mutual relation to each other, and establishes 
and sustains order throughout the universe. Operat- 
ing in the blood will produce its circulation. 

When the forces of attraction and repulsion exist- 
ing in the molecules of matter can be explained, the 
action of the heart w r ill be fully understood, the germ 
of life discovered, and the law of the universe com- 
prehended. 

The doctor feels the pulse of his patient, not to 
ascertain the strength of the heart, but the strength of 
the entire system, which is produced by the magnetic 
condition of the blood, though he may not admit it. 

If the heart produced the circulation of the blood, 
then the physician can tell the condition of the heart 
only by the beating of the pulse, whereas the pulse is 
the indicator of the various conditions of the blood 
and body. 



^ aiiu ncc liuiiA u.i^ccioc xv ouuuiu aiwaj© miptxi t 

j same force to the blood, and give a round, full 
pulse all the time. But, on the contrary, the heart 
may be in perfect health and the pulse very feeble. 
The heart may also be weak in health and the pulse 
fetrong and full. 

Weakness of the heart is caused by a feeble condi- 
tion of the brain followed by inaction of the nerve, and, 
finally, by heart failure. 

The body may be strong and vigorous in every 
other particular and the heart weak, but the inaction 
of the heart will finally reduce the system in health, 
because it prevents a perfect circulation of the blood, 
which is necessary to keep up repairs of the system, 
by distributing material to the various parts of the 
body as it is needed. 

But it is plain to be seen that the action of the 
heart is not voluntary, but is controled by stellar 
forces, which are regular or irregular according to the 
strength of the brain center which supplies it. 

The blood may be highly charged with magnetic 
forces and the heart inactive because the nerve center 
whence rises its nerve is not strong. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



SYSTEMS. 



It is a singular fact, if the foregoing reasoning 
is false, that the different systems comprising the 
human anatomy, are constructed on the plan of 12, 
like the new Jerusalem, which the revelator is said to 
have seen come down out of heaven and rest on 12 
foundations, which were garnished by 12 precious 
stones. The city measured 12 x 12 cubits square, and 
was 12 thousand furlongs. It had 12 gates made oi 
12 pearls. They were guarded by 12 angels, with 12 
swords. 

I do not refer to the foregoing numbers as having 
any bearing on the human anatomy, but only as an 
amusing coincidence to show that perhaps the revela- 
tor recognized the order and beauty of the heavens, 
and perhaps understood something of the influence of 
the zodiac, and allowed his fancy free rein while 
banished to that lonely isle. Perhaps he fancied 
that because the zodiac was separated into 12 divi- 
sions, there must be something sacred or mystical in 
that number, and used for a special purpose by the 
"divine" builder of the universe, and therefore thought 
he would erect his future city on the same plan as his 
air-castle, but before it was finished he died, poor man! 

Nature's Mathematics. — 1st. The human frame 



142 SYSTEMS. 

is constructed of 17x12 bones, or 204. 

2nd. From the top of the head to the end of the 
spinal column there are 4x12, or 48 bones. 

3rd. On each side of the body there are 12 ribs. 

4th. From the end of the finger to the shoulder 
there are six joints; from the end of the toe to the body 
there are six joints, making 12 joints on each side of 
the body. 

5th. In the hands and arms there are 5 times 12 
bones or 60. 

6th. There are 12 pair of cranial nerves. 

7th. The eyes are controled by 12 optical muscles. 

8th. There are 6, or half of 12, pairs of great vital 
systems; 1, the bone structure; 2, the muscular; 3, the 
nervous; 4, the visceral; 5, the circulatory, and 6, skin 
or superficial circulation. 

The foregoing physiological facts ought to be suffi- 
cient evidence to convince the most skeptical of the 
creative laws of nature, but should they be inadequate 
to satisfy the studious mind, let the critical reader 
proceed through the next chapter. 

Functions of the Nervous System. — To corobo- 
rate the statement that the nerves control the growth 
of flesh, another marvelous coincidence, if it be noth- 
ing more, presents itself to the eyes of the investigator. 
It is the inseparable association of the nervous and 
venous system, for each and every nerve is attended 
throughout its length by blood veins. The association 
of these two systems are not accidents either; such an 
occurrence could hardly have taken place by accident, 



SYSTEMS. 143 

with two systems so extremely complicated as the two 
just mentioned, even if accidents are admissable; there- 
fore, it must be conceeded that it was not a slip of the 
tongue or the toe of Jehovah that caused the associa- 
tion, but a necessity with nature in the prosecution 
of her work in creating and sustaining the human 
structure. The body could not be sustained without 
a nervous system, neither could it be sustained with- 
out a venous system. 

The question now arises which holds the pre- 
cedence over the other. It is a well known fact that 
a large part of the blood can be drawn from the veins 
without serious or permanent injury to the body, be- 
cause the absent blood does not affect the functions of 
that which remains; consequently, if there is enough 
left in the veins to receive and convey the necessary 
amount of stellar fluid to the brain, and the various 
parts of the body, to sustain the organs in the per- 
formance of their functions, life will continue, and 
eventually the absent blood will be replaced. The 
nerves are more vital in their office because they be- 
long to, and are a part of, the brain; each branch 
thereof sympathises with all the other branches of that 
great system in the performance of all its duties. An 
injury to the brain affects the whole nervous system, 
and checks or stops the flow of the brain force, which 
would also stop the circulation; but the blood could 
not alone be affected by an injury to the brain. If the 
pneumogastric nerve is parted, death will soon follow. 
Severing the phrenic nerve will produce a sudden 



death, because the diaphragm will cease to vibrate, con- 
sequently the lungs will stop. 

The foregoing facts are strongly in favor ot the 
nervous being the more important of the two sys- 
tems in executing the functions of life. Moreover, 
when any nerve loses any degree of its functional 
power, the flesh it sustains shrinks. When a large 
piece of flesh is torn from the body it is never perfectly 
replaced, for the reason that the nerves which con- 
structed it originally are also torn away; therefore, 
they must be reproduced before new flesh can be 
formed, but the brain is unable to restore the nerves 
in their former perfect state, for like shrubs when 
pruned, they throw out a greater number of branches 
than they previously possessed, which necessarily 
shortened their growth. The increased number 
crowded the newly formed cells and restored the 
tissue in an imperfect manner, and left a deep scar 
to mark the place where the wound was made. If the 
nerves could grow out in their usual perfect form, the 
healing process would be just the same as the original 
growth and each cell would be produced in its proper 
place, and no scar would be left to mark the place 
where the wound was made. 

Without the leadership of the nerves, blood veins 
could not form; besides, there would be no incentive 
to push on to the surface of the body and heal the 
wound. After the veins were once healed, they would 
remain so, and the blood could advance no further; 
and since its natural tendencv would be to return to 



tut; lungs, it wuum nut uuuipiett; tue gruvviii 01 iiesii, 

but the wound would heal at once without restoring 
the full amount of flesh necessary. With the nerves 
growing out they restore new veins, and keep them 
healed, and also opened, so that they can supply the 
necessary elements from the blood to the brain force, 
and thus produce growth as fast as the nerve advances. 
It is evident that the growth of all parts of the body 
is produced by the brain through the agency of the 
nervous system from the following facts: 

1st. The flesh will not form beyond the end of the 
nerves. 

2nd. The newly formed flesh is always tender, 
which is evidence of the presence of the nerves at the 
surface, but the nerves never protude through the skin, 
which shows that they do not advance any faster than 
the flesh grows. 

3th. Flesh cannot shrink till the nerves contract, 
for while the nerves retain their full length they feed 
and sustain the weight of flesh already produced. 
They do not double back nor roll up under the skin, 
but grow and contract in length with the force of the 
brain. 

4th. Flesh cannot increase till the nerves advance. 
Where the nerves go there the blood veins follows, but 
no veins are formed apart from the nerves. 

5th. The length of the nerve determines the length 
of the body. Some brains produce long nerves, while 
others produce short ones, which is the cause of the 
difference in stature. 



146 SYSTEMS, 

The five foregoing facts are quite convincing in 
their tendency to prove the function of the nervous 
system, and plainly prove that they are the conduc- 
tors of the life fluid constantly flowing from the brain 
to every point of the body 




CHAPTER XVII. 



ORGANS. 



The following table will show the constituent 
elements employed in the growth of the vital organs. 
Since the brain supplies energy to all parts of the 
body, with brain force or stellar fluid, it must be of 
the same combination of gases as that originally used 
in the construction of the entire body in order to sus- 
tain it in health and activity. The table w r ill show 
the compound constituent elements entering into the 
construction of the vital organs. It shows, at a glance, 
that the elements so abundantly used in one organ is 
little required in another. In the liver is found 25.23 
potash, 1.03 potash in the lungs, and 9.60 of the same 
in the splene. The blood itself could not supply the 
necessary elements to all of the organs in the right 
proportion without some assistance. 

Heart Spleen 

44,33 
9.60 



Liver 



Soda 14.51 

Potash, 25.23 

Lime. 3.61 

Magnesia | . 20 

Feri-Oixide j 2 . 74 

Chlorine 2.58 

Phosphorus 50 . 18 

Sulphur 0.92 

Silicia \ 0.27 

Ferine Phosphorus | . 00 

Florine 

Phosphorine 



Lungs 

19.05 
1.03 
1.09 
1.09 
3.02 
0.00 

48.05 
1.04 
0.00 
0.00 



7.47 
0.49 
7.28 

.54 

27.10 

2.54 

.17 
0.00 



148 ORGANS. 

If the brain was a unit in its operation, in pro- 
miscuously gathering and supplying stellar forces in- 
discriminately to the body, the whole organism would 
be unsystematically arranged throughout its entire 
structure, and all parts of it would be just alike in 
its chemical make-up, which is not the case. As shown 
by the above table, each organ is composed of a dif- 
ferent combination of elements from the other; there- 
fore, systematic laws must have produced them in the 
beginning, and if they did the assistance of the same 
laws are constantly required to sustain them in their 
functional duties. If all the vital organs were com- 
posed of the same combination of elements they would 
be exactly alike in their formation, texture and physical 
functions; but they are not, and in that fact lies the 
secret of their existence, since their difference is neces- 
sary to life; each organ being differently formed from 
the other requires a different combination of gases to 
sustain. Now the question arises, how does each organ 
obtain its necessary supply of the necessary chemical 
elements to enable it to perform its special function? 
Not alone through the agency of the blood can this be 
done, since it is a common carrier laden with all the 
necessary material for the reparation and reconstruc- 
tion of the entire system; but this is not all which is 
necessary to keep up the repairs of the body. There 
must be a controling agent to attend to the proper 
distribution of thfi filpmfmts in thp hloorl "\Vhir.h of 



ORGANS 149 

sulphur, 48.05 phosphorus, and so on through the 
whole catalogue of elements to be discharged at the 
various organs of the body? This process, as all will 
agree, cannot be done by chance. There must be a 
director or a regulator to see that each bone, muscle, 
cord, tendon, and every organ in the body, is supplied 
with the required combination in sufficient quantities 
to sustain the body in the discharge of its entire func- 
tions. Nature has attended to that important matter 
by delegating to the brain this important office. From 
each of the zodiacal centers of the brain are sent out 
forces peculiar to itself, and which sustain the parts 
of the body which it creates. Along the line of nerves 
extend blood veins, which contain the necessary ele- 
ments to unite with the brain fluid to build up the 
body. 

Corpuscles. — The blood, or plasm, contains the 
carriers, called corpuscles. They are of two colors — 
white and red. The red corpuscles, I judge, convey 
the elements in the blood, while the white corpuscles 
convey the stellar elements, which they receive at the 
lungs, to the brain. The brain is constantly dis- 
charging their fluids over the nervous system to all 
parts of the body. When it reaches a broken down 
tissue, or an absent cell, it draws from the blood the 
necessary elements to repair the breach, while the 
blood flows on. It matters not what kind of a cell 
is missing, or of what combination of gases it is com- 

nospr] t"hn "hrnin spnrls rmt ihp samp p.rvm "hi ruvtirm anrl 



150 ORGANS. 

entire physical organism is sustained, and thus are 
the vital organs supplied with the necessary energy to 
perform their important functions, and thus is each 
division of the body supplied with its constituent ele- 
ments in the necessary proportions without mistake 
or delay; but should any division of the brain fail to 
accumulate a sufficient amount of stellar forces to 
supply the loss of waste matter sufficiently to keep up 
a perfect action of any or all parts of the body, the 
vital organs will fail to perfectly perform their work, 
when the body will decline in strength, and ill-health 
will follow. 

Thus it has been shown that the animal organism 
was mechanically devised, systematically constructed, 
and regularly operated by the chemical divisions of 
the brain. It is generally supposed that the vital or- 
gans were created to support and lend activity to the 
brain, as well as strength to the mind. It wfll, there- 
fore, be a surprise to many to learn that the reverse is 
true. It is now well understood that the brain gives 
life to the whole organism, and sustains the vital 
organs in the discharge of their important duty. The 
organs cannot cease to perform their functions except 
by a cessation of brain force, but when the brain ceases 
to perform its functions, no matter how strong and 
healthy the organs may be, they will cease operation 
at once. A heavy blow on the head will instantly 
suspend animation, and all of the organs will cease to 
perform their duties, for the jar causes the brain cells 
to discharge their entire supply of vital fluids, and 



ORGANS. 1*1 

themselves collapse and remain in that condition; but 
if the blow is not severe enough to cause the cells to 
lose their functional power, they will after a short 
time breathing refill with stellar fluid, and life will 
continue as before. Sometimes, however, the brain 
grows weak from other causes than blows. Then if 
the organs cease to perform their functions, life goes 
out of the body. Occasionally the brain forces run 
down to so low an ebb of life that the nerves cannot 
dispose of the waste matter of the body when disease 
sets in. Thus an organ may waste away to that extent 
that death will follow. 




CHAPTER XVIII. 



ORGANIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUHAN 
BRAIN. 

As previously explained, the human anatomy is 
composed of different systems, bones, muscles, nerves, 
etc., each of which is constructed on a basis of 12. 
The zodiacal brain is also constructed of 12 general 
chemical divisions, which being true, it is not improb- 
able that the planetary brain is constructed on the 
same basis. However, it has not yet been proven. 

I did not reach this conclusion from the number 
of planets which created them, nor from a study of 
those bodies, but from a study of the attractions of the 
zodiacal brain and its divisions. It is a fact, well 
known to the author, that the zodiacal brain at the 
moment of birth, becomes a magnet of attraction 
for planetary gases, and eventually produces the 
phrenological organs; and since the zodiacal brain 
does attract zodiacal gases, it is presumably true 
that each division would possess the same power of 
attraction as the others, and therefore produce the 
same number of mental organs, since they are formed 
in groups. There are 42 mental organs now discovered 
and no divisior will give 12 for a quotient. Four is 
as near as can be reached to produce that number; 
but 4x12 equal 48, which is 6 in excess of the correct 
number. If all of the mental divisions have been dis- 



MENTAL DEVELOPMENT. *53 

covered, then this theory is false, and some other ex- 
planation must be given to account for the number known. 
The power of attraction existing in the zodiacal brain 
is known from the fact that all the mental groups 
found in different brains are differently developed, and 
the various positions and aspects of the planets 
at the time of birth show to what degree they 
will develop, which should not be the case if they 
were not created in that way. The variations of brain 
growth and development is explained as follows: — The 
zodiacal division of the brain will not attract planetary 
gases from all quarters of the heavens except that of 
Mercury, but certain divisions of the zodiacal brain 
will attract Mercurial gases from any position he may 
occupy when he is free from the Sun's beams; but 
when passing between the sun and the earth, and also 
when passing the opposition, at the time of birth, his 
gases are consumed or dissipated by the Sun's rays to 
that extent that a child born at that time cannot re- 
ceive them. Other planets are not illy affected by the 
Sun's beams; on the contrary, the conjunction of the 
Sun and Jupiter is very good, while the conjunction of 
saturn and the sun is ver} 7 evil; but the evil effect 
appears to be on the sun, to weaken his effect, or, what 
is more likely to be true is that when they both hold 
the same position the brain attracts elements from 
both of them for the same purpose, and the combina- 
tion does not work well together. All the planets, 
except Mercury, must be in certain positions before 
the zodiacal brain will receive them. Another singular 



154 MENTAL DEVELOPMENT. 

fact, known to all the students of this sublime seience, 
is that no zodiacal division of the brain will attract 
all combinations of planetary gases, as sextiles, squares, 
trines and oppositions; but each division will attract a 
certain combination, and utilize them in developing 
the brain. Thus the trine aspect of the Sun and Jupiter 
to each other will supply the combination of gases 
necessary to develop the organs of acquisitiveness ad- 
hesiveness and veneration, but the combination pro- 
duced by squares and opposition of the same bodies 
will not be attracted to those divisions, and the organs 
will remain undeveloped. The trine of Venus and the 
moon supplies a combination of gases which are at- 
tracted to the frontal brain at birth, and develop the 
organs of order, while the square aspect of the two 
bodies will supply a combination of gases which can- 
not be attraoted to that zodiacal division of the brain, 
therefore order will not be developed. Any aspect of 
mars will produce a certain degree of development of 
the organs of time, calculation and constructiveness; 
but the sextile and trine aspects are much better than 
the square or opposition. The conjunction sextile and 
trine of venus and Mercury will produce a combination 
of gases which will be attracted to given divisions and 
develop the organs of time, color and ideality; mirth- 
fulness and philoprogentiveness. 

The foregoing being true, it cannot be truthfully 
said that the organization of the brain is the result of 
a, design; neither can it be said that it is the result of 
an accident; nor yet, the result of heredity; nor parenta\ 



MENTAL DEVELOPMENT. 15S 

influences. It is purely the result of natural laws,, 
which were, so far as can be known, created without 
design. 

Doubtless the laws of nature cause every event of 
human life; but that they were foreordained by her 
from the beginning cannot be proven by reason, law 
or precedence. 



HOROSCOPE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 



Our martyred and lamented President and Charles 
Darwin were born in the same year, in the same month, 
and on the same day thereof, but not at the same hour. 

If they had been born in the same latitude and 
longitude, their births would have occurred two hours 
apart, which would have left the planetary aspects in 
their respective horoscopes very nearly the same. 
The Sun and Mars, shedding their benign influence 
on each other, gave to Mr. Lincoln physical strength 
and power of endurance. The Sun, Moon and Jupiter, 
receiving the friendly influence of each other, gave 
him hope; Mars, squaring the Moon, gave courage and 
confidence; Saturn gave tenacity of purpose, while 
Uranus and Mercury in trine aspect to each other im- 
parted to this great man intuitive knowledge and a 
clearness of vision, that bordered on to the realm of 
prophecy. Being born of the same race of people the 
brains of their parents possessed similar combinations of 
elements;therefore the planets would affect them similar- 
ly if not the same through gestation, consequently, the 



156 LINCOLN'S HOROSCOPE 

heavens would create similar results in their respec- 
tive embrio through the brains of two mothers that 
they would through the brain of one mother; therefore 
with a degree of truth it can be said that they were 
twins. Notwithstanding the fact their fathers were dif- 
ferent men and their mothers were thousands of miles 
apart when these embriotic giants were born; 
nevertheless they caught the same planetary inspira- 
tion. Could Mr. Lincoln have had a twin brother 
iDorn under the same influence as was Mr. Darwin 
their horoscopes would have read the same; or, if 
Lincoln and Darwin had both been born on the "old 
Kentucky shore," they would have been as near alike 
as if they had been born of the same mother. They 
came that near being twins: they were born under 
conjunction signs, which gave to each different rulers 
from the other. Mr. Darwin was ruled by Mars and 
Uranus, which made him wayward, rebellious, despis- 
ing authority, somewhat selfish and malicious, which 
caused his mind to wander away from the beaten track 
of public opinion, and to pass beyond the lines of 
scientific limits, far into the waste of the unexplored. 
Lincoln was ruled by the great Jove or Jehova, 
with Saturn near his eastern horizon, which gave him 
a different bent of mind from that of Mr. Darwin. 
He was the man of the people; he liked social and 
political institutions; he liked order and social har- 
mony, and though possessing the same great ability 
as Mr. Darwin, his love of pursuits was different; he 
chose law for his profession because it was genial to 



LINCOLN'S HOROSCOPE 157 

his mind; he was humane and unselfish and placed 
justice above price. To defend the weak was a pleas- 
ure; to advance, and to guard the interests of all was 
to him a delight. He loved freedom for himself and 
desired that all should enjoy what he so highly prized. 
Uranus and Mercury in trine aspect to each other 
made him thoughtful, profound and farseeing in his 
plans. His sense of right was less erring than the 
letter of the law; his justice more discreet than found 
on the statute books of nations. He could look beyond 
the act to the motive of the offender of the law and 
mete out justice according to his deserts; he was a 
friend to the downtrodden, and his ears were always 
open to the pleadings of the poor; he knew the right 
and had the courage to pursue it; he was one of nature's 
noblest ox noble men. In his horoscope his house of 
friends was badly afflicted, consequently he was left 
with planetary influences to scale the height of fame. 
His ability alone won the victory and landed him on 
the topmost piniole of fame's dizzy height, thereto glit- 
ter in the sun of admiration. 



CHAPTER XIX. 
ZODIACAL BRAIN. 

The Encepelon is a peculiarly constructed engine, 
possessing more power than any engine of like size yet 
produced by the ingenuity of man. It is so different 
from any human invention yet produced by him that 
man has not been able to guess the intricacies of its- 
operation, and not being permitted to see it work in 
the fullness of its strength, and in the execution of its 
skillful functions, he can learn but little concerning 
the force pervading the human brain, 

Heads. — Human heads are interesting objects to 
study, since the shape of them is determined by the 
form and strength of the brain. 

The heads of all animals also afford an interesting 
6tudy, since the form of their bodies are determined by 
the shapes of their heads. All animals, belonging to 
the same species, are practically the same in form. 
They are so near alike that the naturalist can classify 
them from their general appearance with little or no 
trouble. 

The skulls of horses, dogs, beast and birds, as well 
as all species of animal life, can readily be pointed out 
by the expert naturalist; yet there is a slight variation 
in the skull of individual animals belonging to the 
same species, but which difference is noticeable only 
to the close observer. Perhaps there is a greater varia- 



ZODIACAL BRAIN. 159 

tion in the form of the human than is to be found 
in the skulls of any other species of animal life, 
which is attributable to the many and various forces 
working in the human brain, and which take no part 
in forming the brain of other animals. The skull must 
conform to the size and shape of the brain, and since 
there are more subdivisions in the brain of man than 
in the brains of any other animals it is subjected to a 
greater number of variations. The specific difference 
found in the human skull is not the result of accident, 
nor, as some suppose, caused by an irregular pressure 
on a conglomerate mass of brain matter, which, like 
so much putty, may be moulded in the various shapes, 
as the pressure might determine; but they are all 
caused by a natural development of the brain, which 
is produced by planetary forces. Some children have 
peculiarly formed heads, and their fond mothers ex- 
cuse them to those who notice their unusual shapes by 
explaining that they were produced by a fall, or lying 
too much one on Bide when asleep, or by some neglect 
or carelessness on her part, for the mother will bear 
any blame to shield her unfortunate child. In some 
cases the ears are thrust well out from the head, and 
their tops thrown forward, thus giving them an un- 
pleasant prominence. The mother explains that it 
wae caused by wearing the cap too low down on the 
ears, thus crowding them out and forward; but she 
will probably notice that the child thus deformed is 
very active, restless, and often cruel and unkind to 
animals; also inclined to be rough and wild. He is 



160 ZODIACAL BRAIN. 

not thus endowed because his ears are peculiarly set 
on the head, But because the shape of the brain which 
made them stand out so prominently also caused the 
temperament. The prominence of the ears is the result 
of natural and not artificial causes. 

Ears lying close to the head show a want of energy, 
whether the child wore his cap low down on them 
or went bareheaded. Large, well developed or small, 
well developed heads, and malformations, are the result 
of natural laws, and all have been produced with each 
generation from time immemorial, and it is safe to say 
that the same results will follow during the coming 
generations. However, it is a hope, devoutly to be 
wished, that with the increase of scientific knowledge, 
and a better understanding of the natural causes which 
produce them, that the percentage of malformations 
will decrease in the same ratio, and that less suffering 
will result from personal gratification in the future. 

There is a law of growth in the human brain 
which is not easily understood, and therefore hard to 
explain in regard to the respective brains born at 
different hours of the same day. There is a percept- 
able difference in them, both in size and shape. In 
their physical divisions they are the same. These 
divisions embrace cerebrum, cerebellum, and medula- 
oblongatta, with their subdivisions. These parts are 
so nearly alike in all human brairs that it is not diffi- 
cult for naturalists to select them from any number of 
brains belonging to the lower animals. The cerebellum 
is the seat of life and motion. Ail involuntary actions 



ZODIACAL BRAIN. 161 

of the body are produced by the force sent from this 
brain. But this is not the point I wish to call the 
attention of the reader to at this time. It is the 
general form of the different skulls belonging to the 
same species, and especially to the human family. 
This difference is noticeable in the form of skulls born 
at different hours of the same day. Tlipy are produced 
prior to birth, and usually appear at the rising of cer- 
tain zodiacal signs. The difference in the develop- 
ments of the respective skulls is owing to the prevail- 
ing elements received from the division which rises at 
the moment of birth. 

Aries, rising at the birth, will produce a well 
developed zodiacal, somewhat elongated, but well 
balanced brain. 

Taurus, when rising at birth, produces a well 
developed, zodiacal brain, which is broad in front, 
but not very high, and somewhat inclined to round- 
ness. 

•oemini, rising at birth, generally produces a 
high brain, narrow at the base, but wide at the top. 

Cancer produces a medium-sized brain, inclined 
roundness, and generally narrow in front, 

Leo produces a large, well developed, zodiacal 
brain, spherical in form, broader in front than back 
the ears, but heavy neck. 

Virgo, «rhen rising at birth, produces a 1 
vow brain, arching from front to rear, and a low 
forehead. 

Libra produce- a small, fine brain, r and and 
rather high. 



162 ZODIACAL BRAIN. 

Sagittarius produces a high, round brain, small 
at the base, back of the ears, but widens as it rises. 

Capricornus produces a medium-sized brain, more 
square than round, backhead medium in size. 

Aquarius produces a large, well developed, zodiacal 
brain, but usually narrow just back of the ears, which 
causes them to lie close to the head. 

Pisces produces a large, well developed brain, the 
ears lying close to the head. 

The foregoing are the forms of the zodiacal brains at 
birth, and before the planetary brain is added to them. 
Notwithstanding there is a noticeable difference in the 
general form of the human brains, their functions re- 
main the same, except in degree of power. Each divi- 
sion performs its involuntary duty by supplying the 
internal organs with force to perform their physical 
functions, but all brains do not execute their work 
with the same degree of activity, for the reason that 
all do not possess equal power to generate brain force, 
and therefore cannot supply it to the vital organs to 
the same extent. 

The difference which marks the forms of the brains, 
born at the rising of specific signs, is observable even 
in the heads of twins born at different hours of the 
same day. One, born at the rising of Libra, will have 
a small round head, while one born two hours later, 
at the rising of Scorpio, will have a large, broad head 
possessing a much greater degree of vitality than the 
former one; yet the physical divisions and the vital 
functions of the respective brains would be much alike, 



ZODIACAL BRAIN. 163 

except that one would possess less vitality. Why this 
is true I am at a loss to explain, except it exists in the 
power of attraction of the ruling nucleus, or the one 
first formed; it being the organizer of the eleven subse- 
quently added to it. It may have the power to draw 
them closer, in a more condensed form, in the latter 
than in the former case. Should the first nucleus 
originate in Taurus, Scorpio, or Sagittarius, it would 
be more vital than though it originated in Gemini, 
Libra or Cancer, for the reason above stated; but why 
one should be stronger than another degree of the 
zodiacal belt is not yet understood, but there is a 
natural cause, whatever it may be, for the difference. 
The development of the zodiacal brain I attribute 
to the predominating influence which the sign ruling 
at conception had over the germ from that time on till 
birth. The cause of the predominating influence I 
further attribute to the fact that the germ contains 
pervading elements, which would require contact with 
certain other elements in order to create fecundation, 
for the simple contact of the ovum and the spermatazoa 
of themselves would not cause impregnation. If con- 
tact was all that was necessary, then any ovum, when 
ripe, would receive the sperm at any time when sup- 
plied, and produce life, which is not the case. Some- 
times the germs are so inharmoniously constructed in 
their chemical make-up, that zodiacal forces cannot 
induce them to form a union. Should Libra be rising 
at the time of birth, I should attribute the cause to 
the predominating influence which that division exer« 



164 ZODIACAL BRAIN. 

cised over the fan us during gestation. The cause of 
the predominance of the Libra elements I would 
further attribute to the chemical condition of the 
ovum at the time of conception. If it contained a 
predominance of the Venus elements it would require 
the assistance of Zodiacal elements of the Venus nature, 
to unite the two forces, male and female. The division 
Libra, possessing such elements to a greater degree 
than other divisions of the zodiac, supplies them to 
the germ as soon as the earth has reached a point 
which make it possible for them to receive the zodiacal 
forces required, which would be at a certain degree of 
Libra. 

Thus it appears that if conception takes place at 
the rising of Libra, the birth will also occur at the 
rising of the same division, which position would give 
the Libra elements the predominating influence over 
the ruling nuclei of the ovum, which it would continue 
to hold through the period of gestation. In order to 
continue this authority over the physical development 
of the child, the Libra forces caused it to be born at 
the rising of that sign, for the reason that the elements 
from the zodiacal division were so strong in the child 
before birth that they must continue in power after 
birth. In order to do so, the child must be born at 
the rising of Libra. The reason for Libra rising is that 
the eastern division is the strongest point for the 
dominating division to hold at the time of birth. 
li by ''accident," or by the design of the attending 
physician, the birth is forced out of its perfect time, 



ZODIACAL BRAIN. 165 

nature's design is thwarted, and evil results will fol- 
low to a greater or less degree; but to what extent can 
only be known by the influence of the afflicting planet 
in the horoscope of the mother at that particular time. 
In some cases the time of birth is apparently post- 
poned, but nature is only waiting for the rising of the 
ruling division before producing the birth. The delay 
has caused many a mother unnecessary pangs, while 
waiting in doubt concerning the result of her confine- 
ment, which could easily have been dispelled by 
having a little scientific information on the subject 
at the proper time regarding the cause of the delay. 

Should the Mars elements predominate in the 
parental germs at conception, which might be the 
case, even with parents who are ruled by the planet 
Venus, because the organism of all are undergoing a 
constant change caused by the planets moving from 
one to another position, from the influence of a maUfic 
to that of a benefic, or vice versa, than it would require 
Mars elements to cause fecundation, consequently 
Mars elements would be the first to get possession of 
the embrio, and when in possession they would hold 
the controling position over the other elements, and 
rule their development through gestation. Then, ac- 
cording to the law of development, the Mars elements 
should rule through life, and, therefore, nature would 
cause the birth to take place when the Mars influences 
were strongest, which would be at the rising of Aries 
or Scorpio. 

Parents, born, one at the rising of Aries, the other 



166 ZODIACAL BRAIN. 

at the rising of Taurus, might beget Libra children. 
In that event they would be very unlike their parents 
in size of body, form of head, as well as in taste and 
talents. But should the zodiacal forces, which rule 
during gestation, say that of Libra, be deposed by a 
stronger force, say Aquarius, a short time previous to 
birth, the child would posses* the Libra form and 
features for a while after birth, but eventually it would 
change to the Aquarius form, and be radically dif- 
ferent from what it would have been had it been -born 
at the proper time. Then, instead of being tall and 
slender, the child, when grown, would be stout and 
shorter. 

It is thought by some mothers, that if the child 
be born short of the regular period, in casting the 
horoscope it would be necessary for the astrologer to 
understand that fact, in order to make the necessary 
allowance for the difference in time, but such is not the 
case. The time of birth, be it longer or shorter than 
the allotted period for gestation, is all that is required. 
The first breath ot life is the important moment to 
observe, regardless of what it might have been. When 
the sign rules uninterruptedly from conception till 
birth, the growth is complete, the birth is natural, and 
the form will develop to fill the description of the 
ruling signs, which should be the case with every birth, 
and will be when the laws, which govern human life, 
are properly understood and observed in the reproduc- 
tion of human life. 

Hands. — Each of the celestial signs, when rising 



ZODIACAL BRAIN. 167 

at birth, produces hands peculiar to themselves, and 
in many cases the rising sign may be known by the 
form of the hand and the length of the fingers of the 
subject; but owing to the varying of the combination 
of the elements which compose the brain, this cannot 
always be done. 

Aries, when rising at birth, usually produces a 
well formed hand, medium in length, smooth fingers, 
though not tapering. Among the laboring classes the 
hands are not so sym metrical as they are among students 
and professional men, born at the rising of that sign. 
The unemployment of the hands is not the cause of them 
being small and shapely. It is the condition of the 
brain which produced them. The sturdy laborer has 
large, rough hands, not because he labors, but because 
the brain which made him a laborer also gave him the 
hands with which to do the work. 

Taurus, when rising, produces a plump, fleshy 
hand, rather short and broad, and usually the fingers 
are smooth. 

Gemini generally produces a long, slender hand, 
with tapering fingers, bony and nimble. 

Cancer produces a long, broad palm, which ex- 
tends out between the fingers, thus producing the 
appearance of webs. 

Leo, when rising at birth, gives long hands, well 
shaped fingers, and a narrow smooth palm. 

Virgo gives a short, rough hand, w r ith knotty 
fingers. 

LiBRA-hands are long, slender, with tapering 
tingers. 



168 ZODIACAL BRAIN. 

Scorpio produces large, strong hands, not always 
rough and bony, but many times they are. 

Sagittarius gives a long, bony hand, but a short 
palm. 

Capricornus gives short, bony hands, usually 
knotty fingers, but not always. 

Aquarius produces a well shaped hand, long,, 
smooth and tapering, medium sized palm, and some- 
times it is broad. 

Pisces gives a short, plump, fleshy hand and 
fingers. 

The following chapter will be devoted to explain- 
ing the growth of planetary brain, or the mind pro- 
ducing grey matter, which is formed after the child is 
born. 

1st. In so doing I must necessarily show that the 
human mind as an entity, did not exist prior to birth r 
nor prior to the additional growth of brain matter,, 
which occurred after birth. 

2nd. I shall conclusively show that the brain is 
produced from the gases received from the celestial 
bodies. 

3rd. That the gases received from the planets 
produce the grey matter, intelligence, and adds to or 
detracts strength from the brain forces. 

4th. That the strength of the mind depends (a) on 
the size, (b) on the form, and (c) on the activity of 
the bra ii. 

5th. The small brain, however good, is not forcible.. 

6th. A badly formed brain, however large, is not 
forcible. 



ZODIACAL BRAIN. 169 

7th. A large, well developed, inactive brain is not 
forcible. 

8th. That all of the foregoing conditions depend 
on the local and relative positions of the planets at 
the moment of birth, and their association after birth. 

9th. I shall also show that the brain is composed 
of chemical, as well as physical, divisions of gray 
matter. 

10th. That the mind is the result of a chemical 
action of the brain, superinduced by electrical currents 
from the planets. 

11th. That the strength of currents, producing 
this effect, depends on the position of the planet at 
any given time. 

12th. That when the chemical action ceases, mind 
will then be no more. 




CHAPTER XX. 
PLANETARY BRAIN. 



The growth of the planetary brain, its peculiar 
formation, its divisions and subtle functions, embrace, 
perhaps, the most perplexing part of the entire subject 
now under discussion, and the one most difficult to 
make clear to all, owing to the extreme intrincies 
involved, and the unfamiliarity of the general reader 
with the subject. But I will try to make it easy, by 
abridging as much as possible, without obscuring the 
ideas set forth, and yet indite enough to make clear 
the theories advanced. The subject, however, is too 
extensive to be fully embraced and clearly com- 
prehended in a work of this size. The details are 
too complicated to be fully brought out until the lead- 
ing points become established as scientific facts. 
Eventually the metaphysician will find the study of 
the brain from this standpoint, not only interesting 
and facsinating, but instructive in all of its details, 
since he will find a reason for all things human. 
The brain has never been properly studied for the 
reason that it could not be reached by physical 
analysis during life. In death, its functions having 
ceased, the cells collapse, which places it in a very un- 
fit condition to be studied, to say nothing about the 
mutilations caused by the knife in dissecting it; there- 



PLANETARY BRAIN. 171 

fore, the brain can only be successfully studied in 
connection with the laws which produced it, which is 
the author's method of analysis and synthesis. 

In discussing the planetary brain, its physical 
function, being the most important, must receive first 
attention. The Zodiacal brain having been previously 
discussed, it is now understood that the planetary 
forces have no power, independent of the Zodiacal 
brain, to create life, nor to construct brain matter,, 
therefore the Zodiacal brain must be formed first, and 
the planetary brain added to it after the birth takes 
place. This additional growth of planetary matter 
was and is necessary to assist the Zodiacal brain in 
more perfectly performing its physical functions. The 
addition of gray to the white matter after birth must 
necessarily change the form of the brain from what it 
was at birth, for the reason that all of the Zodiacal 
brain centers of attraction could not be supplied with 
an equal amount of planetary gases all the time, nor 
could they all receive an equal supply at any given 
time, because the planets could not hold positions 
from which they could supply it; therefore they could 
not all develop alike. Persons born at different hours 
of the same day, are supplied with different combina- 
tions of gases which are attracted to different centers 
in respective brains, which is the reason they do not 
always develop alike. It is impossible for nature to 
create two brains just alike except they are born of 
the same race of people, at the same place, at the same 
time. 



172 PLANETARY 3RAIN. 

The planetary brain is composed of two general 
and many subdivisions. The two general, or to be 
more explicit, the outer and inner layers oi planetary 
matter which compose the cerebrum and cerebellum 
will be explained now in a general way and later on 
more specifically. 

While forming, prior to birth, the zodiacal brain 
has but little power to utilize planetary matter, but at 
the moment of birth it suddenly becomes transform 
into a very active magnet which is able to attract 
planetary gases, with which to complete the growth of 
the encephalon. I attribute this change to the fact 
that the Zodiacal brain, prior to birth, must remain in 
a passive condition, since it is only in an evolution- 
ary state, and is being acted on by other forces, through 
the agency of the mother. It. therefore, pooB C flfl C B 
volition of its own: but so soon as it is fully developed 
it is then born and becomes an independent power, 
and able to create additional growth by attracting 
planetary gases and transforming them into layers 
gray matter. 

It must be remembered, however, that all of the 
twelve divisions of the Zodiacal brain cannot attract 
planetary gases from the planets, only when they are 
in certain positions at the moment of birth. Whes 
the local positions of the planets are favorable fc 
given division of the Zodiacal brain to attract their 
>W8 v^ry large, and the increase' of plane- 
tary brain is plainly visible in all heads, except tl 
of idiots, for they cannot receive it for the reason : 



PLANETARY BRAIN. 173 

the Zodiacal brain did not receive enough of the plane- 
tary gases during gestation to magnetize it sufficiently 
to awaken in it, at the moment of birth, the necessary 
force of attraction for planetary gases, to produce a 
healthy brain, therefore it remains as it was born. It 
might not promote the friendship existing be- 
tween yourself and the newly-made mother to tell her 
that her child is an idiot, nevertheless such is the case, 
and so it w r ould remain without the additional growth 
of planetary brain. All children are born in that con- 
dition — yet, after all, it is a well-known fact that all 
newly-born infants arrive without intelligence, but the 
mental condition of the child at birth is supposed to 
be only in an undeveloped state, and, like new wine, 
will improve with age, since the brain and mind are 
supposed by some be be separate entities; and suscept- 
ible of cultivation — a theory not easily explained, but 
clear enough to be densely erroneous at best, for age 
alone cannot give mental strength to any brain. If it 
could, then all brains w r ould be equally active, since 
they all have the same opportunity in that respect, to 
gain strength; but it is plain that all of them do not 
grow alike; on the contrary, no two of them develop 
the same. Every degree of intelligence, from the phil- 
osopher dow r n to the idiot, is shown in the human 
family, and sometimes that difference is noticeable in 
the same family. No two brains are ever found just 
alike at birth, or ten years later, consequently there 
must be some other reason than age or cultivation for 
their difference in developments. 



174 PLANHTARY BRAIN 

Th- I the newly-born infant are expression- 

less: ttc t be gained in any way; all it 

knows ifi to kick and cry. both of -which a full-grown 
idiot can do. but a e g can do more 

they can balance their bodies on their feet, run at 
take food withou: mgtanee almost imme \fter 

th. If a child should remain in the mental condi- 
tion in which it is 1 and at birth, no one would Ma- 
puto its idiocy. No mm he growth of the 
brain. He only questions its conditions at the mo- 
ment of birth, tor it if i all to be as per- 
fectly organ: if fcer birth, 
and all that is needed to perfect its developme: 
time and food. Generally it red that the child 
itfi nourishment from the food taken into the 
stomach. Food, to produce 

st children food equally nour 

ing. but no ti same intellectually, th 

fore a more potent reason muri 

tiling facte. I: the li visions which produce the 
mental faculties are wholly absent at the moment of 

th, which they are. then what force in separate 
9e them I - ke form, and thus pro- 
duce different talents and traits of character, if not the 
planets? They could not have inherited their pecu- 
liarities since they were receivod after birth. They 
not will the develops lissome, since they have 

no power to choose, therefore no power : g vern the 
.ey will U. ;ent for com- 

ot that there is a code of laws which rules the 



PLANETARY BRAIN. 175 

growth of the body, the form of the brain, gives power 
to mind; produces the events of life, and determines 
the destiny of the man. All clear-headed reasoners 
realize these facts, though they may not understand 
the laws which produce them; but all have witnessed 
the results of the unseen forces of nature, and know 
that they exist. It is this code of natural laws which 
I am now going to explain. 

Brain Layers. — The two layers of planetary brain, 
now under discussion, are produced by the same plan- 
ets, but under different circumstances. Both layers 
affect the strength of the mind and body, but in differ- 
ent ways. Neither layer, under any circumstance, 
can be perfectly formed, but under very favorable cir- 
cumstances both may be well formed, or one may be 
well formed and the other very imperfectly formed, all 
depending on the local and relative position of the 
planets at the moment of birth. The first layer spoken 
of is produced by the local position of the planets rela- 
tive to a given point on the Earth. The second layer 
is produced by the aspects of the planets to each other, 
from the different positions of the heavens at the mo- 
ment of birth. The latter is the outer layer, and ter- 
minates in protuberances called phrenological organs. 
The Zodiacal brain contair. s twelve chemical divisions 
or centers. Each division has a distinct and impor- 
tant function to perform in developing the intellectual 
brain after birth. The frontal division attracts gases 
from the eastern quarter of the heavens. If the birth 
occurs in the absence of all of the nlanets from the 



176 PLANETARY BRAIN. 

eastern horizon, the frontal brain will be small. One 
planet rising increases the size of the frontal brain 
above the average by depositing one layer of gray 
matter. Two planets rising at birth gives a greater 
increase in the size and working power of the frontal 
brain by forming the second layer; but when the birth 
occurs at the rising of three planets, they produce im- 
mense convolution of gray matter in front of the ears. 
Three is the greatest number of planets I have ever 
known to be rising at the birth of any person. [See 
horoscopes of Grant, Garfield and Butler.] The upper 
and rear portion of the brain attract gases from the 
midheavens and develop the sub-layers of that portion 
of the brain. The lower and rear part of the Zodiacal 
brain attracts planetary gases from the western divi- 
sion of the horoscope, and develops the sub-layer of 
the domestic region. 

The foregoing explains how the sub-brains are 
formed. 

Aspects. — On top of this sub-brain there are other 
layers formed by a combination of gases, produced by 
the many aspects of the various planets. For acute- 
ness of mind and activity of body, the layers thus pro- 
duced are more important than the sub-brain, for 
without some of these combinations the body 
would not be supple. The Zodiacal brain supplies 
the nervous system with sufficient force to sustain life; 
the sub-brain adds strength to it, and gives more 
strength to the muscles, while the organic development 
further lends strength and activity to the entire mus- 



PLANETARY BRAIN. 177 

cular system, and gives control over the movement of 
the body; therefore, the activity of the body is known 
by the aspects of the planets at the time of birth. To 
explain the power of the brain over the muscular ac- 
tion of the body, I will present the following illustra- 
tion: 

Beginning with the lowest form of human life, or 
state of absolute idiocy, or a life produced alone by 
Zodiacal gases, no physical strength is manifested, even 
at the age of twenty-one years, for the adult idiot is a 
helpless mass of human flesh. He experiences no 
events of life; he has no business ability, no matrimo- 
nial inclinations, no vices, no virtues. Every day to 
him is practically the same; but taking a higher form 
of idiocy, when only a small amount of planetary mat- 
ter is added to the Zodiacal brain. The child can 
stand and walk and is not altogether helpless. He 
has some control of his muscular action. Then take a 
still higher form of the same malady. The boy can 
run, play, and do some kinds of rough work, which 
requires no dexterity of hand; but not in the least de- 
gree is he mechanical. He only has a clumsy use of 
his body and muscles. But as the planetary brain in- 
creases in the healthy child its physical strength, activ- 
ity, and mental power also, increase; but if there is any 
difference between them the physical advances beyond 
the mental powers. When the brain grows large 
enough to produce organic developments, intelligence 
is there manifested in gracefully directing the move- 
ment of the body in motion. As the brain increases 



178 PLANETARY BRAIN. 

in size, the body increases in activity. Some men can 
walk a tight-rope, lay lengthwise on it; again rise to 
their feet, and even push a wheel barrow along in front 
of them, and feel perfectly at ease on a single rope sus- 
pended in midair, at a distance from the ground, that 
some men could not reach on a long ladder without 
fear of falling. Another can ride a bareback horse, 
turn a somersault, jump through a hoop, alight in the 
Droper place, at the proper time, to avoid accident. 
The juggler too, will keep three or more knives in the 
air, whirling around and around, catching them by 
their points, tossing them again, without making a 
mistake, losing a knife, or wounding his fingers, which, 
however, is not the work of an idiot, but of one who 
has time, weight and calculation well developed,which 
gives prefect control of the muscular action, so that he 
could always throw his knives with the same force, 
watch their progress, and be ready to catch them when 
they returned. If the knives were not thrown just so, 
they would not return to the right point, at the right 
time, to be caught when the operator is ready to re- 
ceive them; but by being thrown with the same force, 
they make the same revolutions in the same circuit, in 
exactly the same time, and thus reach the right point 
to meet the nimble fingers of the juggler. The dancer, 
too, can make his feet follow the figures of the dance 
in the waltz, quadrille, or the clog, and keep perfect 
time with the music, and so may many other unusual 
feats be performed by certain individuals who possess 
the necessary brain development for that purpose, but 



PLANETARY BRAIN. 179 

not by the clumsy feet nor the unskilled hand of the 
undeveloped brain. The combination of the Sun, 
Mars and Mercurial elements are necessary at the time 
of birth to produce the proper developments to give 
power over a special set of muscles for that purpose. 

The sub-divisions, or mental organs at the outer 
corner of the eyes, are some of the points necessary to 
be developed to give such perfect use of the necessary 
muscles. It is plain then that the office of these men- 
tal organs is to control certain sets of muscles, by sup- 
ply in g them with brain force, and also to direct the move- 
ments of the body w r hen set in motion. When large, 
these organs create an abundant supply of brain force 
for the purpose, and dispatch it to the muscles when 
desired, thus supplying them with power to continue 
in action for a given length of time. The muscles can 
be compelled to obey the will just so long as the brain 
can obtain stellar forces in sufficient quantities, and 
supply them with that fluid. After a time the dancer 
becomes exhausted, because the brain force is insuffi- 
cient to sustain the action of the muscles; while the 
breath grows short and quick, because of the desperate 
effort of the lungs to obtain enough stellar force to 
sustain the brain in its laborious work, after supplying 
the muscles with the necessary power to do their work. 
It will be noticed that the brain becomes wearied first, 
and at the same time confused in following the figures 
of the dance. It is then the feet begin to fail in the 
performance of their task, and refuse to perfectly exe- 
cute their work, and finally get out of time, blunder 



180 PLANETARY BRAIN 

and break clown. In order to control the feet through 
the figures of the dance, they must have intelligent di- 
rectors to mentally outline every line, curve and circle, 
through which they must pass. These directors can 
be no other than the divisions of the brain which sup- 
ply the electric force that operates the muscles which 
control the legs and feet of the dancer, the rope-walker, 
and the hands of the juggler. In proportion to the 
size and activity of the sub-divisions which supply the 
fluid to any given set of muscles, will they obey the 
will of the performer for a longer or shorter time. The 
smaller the organs the less force they supply to the 
muscles, consequently the less perfect will they control 
the feet, in the execution of the dance, and the dimmer 
will be the intellectual lights they shed; therefore, the 
less accurate will be the forms outlined by the mental 
directors. The feet cannot better perform than the 
mind can direct. No matter how large the organs may 
be, their power is limited, since they can only receive 
and supply a certain amount of fluid in a given time, 
which will last a longer or shorter period according to 
the way in which it is expended. If exhausted by 
rapid and violent exercise, the time will be much 
shorter than though the exercise was moderate; but 
when the cells fail, the vital fluid becomes exhausted, 
and the brain can supply no more, the thoughts grow 
dim, and the muscles fail to perfectly perform their 
work, when the feet grow clumsy and rest is demanded 
that the cells may recuperate their lost powers. 

If the brain can create lines, curves, and circles, 
for the feet to follow in the dance, the hands of the 



PLANETARY BRAIN. 181 

juggler to trace in his performance, it can also create 
lines, curves and circles, without making any physical 
demonstration whatever, because thought can flow, 
without connecting any branch of the nervous system 
with any sub-division of the brain. It was the play 
of electric lights from the above named organs which 
gave to man his power to invent, combine numbers, in 
producing arithmetical forms, higher mathematics and 
architectural designs. 

The foregoing are some of the results wrought in 
the human brain by planetary forces, and plainly show 
that the first duty of the brain is to perform a physical 
office, which is shown in the fact that all animals have 
the use of their bodies, however weak their minds may 
be, and it is a noticeable fact that the less control the 
animal has over the movements of the body, the 
weaker is its intellect. But the brain rules the actions 
of the body of all life, regardless of its intelligence. 

The second duty of the brain is to create mental 
functions, if they are not simultaneous in their actions. 
The action of the brain cannot cease; it must continue 
active from birth till death, asleep or awake, which 
condition can only be sustained by continually receiv- 
ing a fresh supply of vital fluid from the atmosphere 
by breathing. Even after the cells are full to over- 
flowing, the same sources of supply must continue, 
which would be impossible unless there were some 
means by which the accummulated forces could escape 
when the muscles were at rest; but Nature provided 
for that necessity by allowing the brain to exhaust the 



182 PLANETARY BRAIN. 

accummulated physical forces in mental action inde- 
pendently of the physical efforts of the body. The brain 
could not, like the physical dynamo, shut off its entire 
energies and resume them at pleasure, and go on as 
before, for it could not have life again infused into its 
cells, hence the necessity of keeping them in action 
and also disconnected from the nervous system, except 
when desired. The connection between the brain and 
nervous system is made by a mental effort of some one 
of the twelve Zodiacal divisions. The connection is 
made for the purpose of conveying the brain force to 
the set of muscles to be operated. The medulla ob- 
longata being composed of a multiplicity of nerves, it 
is evident that it has a very complicated and import- 
ant office to perform. This office I shall compare to 
the central telegraph office, which connects the entire 
system of wires, so that a wire from any part of the 
country may be connected to a wire leading to any lo- 
cality desired, and a dispatch sent. Then the connec- 
tion is broken, and, if desired, connection with another 
wire is made, and so on till all of the wires in the of- 
fice are used. So the n>edulla oblongatta connects the 
sub-divisions of the brain to the desired branch of the 
nervous system. In this way any muscles of the body 
may be reached by any sub-division of the brain, and 
brought in to play by a force of the will or an effort of 
that sub-division. Such, I believe to be, the office of the 
medulla oblongatta and the method employed by the 
brain in controlling the muscular system. After the 
dispatch is sent, the force is expended, the connection 



PLANETARY BRAIN. 183 

is broken, and the muscles released until further used. 
The foregoing is the solution I have for the problem, 
and the following explanation will reveal my reason 
for entertaining it: If the brain was permanently 
connected with the entire nervous system, the flow of 
brain force over the nerves would be constant, there- 
fore the muscles would be kept continually in motion, 
and there would be no rest, day or night; for each sub- 
division would alternately send a dispatch over the 
nerves, and thus keep some of them active all of the 
time. But, as it is, there is no connection without an 
effort of the sub-division of the brain, which sends the 
dispatch. Any and all branches of the nervous sys- 
tem can be connected to any given sub-division of the 
brain at will, which is shown in physical action. A 
single sub-division of the brain may be connected 
with one-half of the entire nervous system, which is 
proven in the act of controlling the body by the organ 
of time. The force from that sub-division can keep 
the legs, arms, and the entire body in perfect time 
with the music. That all parts of the body have full 
connection with the brain is further evinced by the 
development of the hands, which have been discovered 
as indices of the brain, are caused by the development 
of the muscles which are produced by the branches of 
the nervous system which develop the hands. It is 
true that each sub-division supplies its part of the 
matter for developing the hand, since the muscles are 
thrown up and make certain developments according 
to the force sent from the brain, and thus createsg 



184 PLANETARY BRAIN. 

mounts, lines, and other marks, which are indices of 
brain power. It further appears that the muscles de- 
velop in layers, and that each sub-division produces 
its own layer. If they are well developed and strong, 
the layers are many, and the hand is well developed 
and highly marked with lines, stars, crosses, and other 
symbols of mental strength; but if the mounts are ab- 
sent, and the palm is badly marked, the hand indicates 
a badly organized and weak brain, incapable of great- 
effort or business success. If there were no connection 
between the brain and the hand by the nervous sys- 
tem, there could be no indication in the latter of the 
strength of the former. If the nerves do not form the 
muscles of the hand, there can be no active connection 
between the brain and that member. The 
connection of the brain w r ith the pedal extremities is 
just as perfect as that of the hands; but the muscular 
development of the feet is very different and requires a 
special study. The brain of an infant is proportion- 
ately large, and supplies a superabundance of brain 
force, which causes the mind of the healthy child to be 
very active, and also keeps its muscles active; there- 
fore, the body is in a constant state of unrest. This is 
w T hy educators say that activity is a law of childhood. 
As the brain increases in strength, it is thereby enabled 
to throw out its force, feed the nerves, extend them a 
little farther on, and thus produce growth each day. 
When the nerves have reached the full lengthy the 
braiii has power to extend them, the mind becomes 
less active, because the full force of the brain is re- 



PLANETARY BRAIN. 18ft 

quired to sustain the body it has created, and restore 
the broken down tissue that is continually wasting; 
away. Thus the planetary brain assists the Zodiacal 
brain, in producing growth and muscular develop- 
ment. 

The Zodiacal brain, having a permanent connec- 
tion with the nervous system, it is constantly supply- 
ing a mild flow of vital fluids to the entire body in suf- 
ficient quantities to restore to the muscular cells their 
exhausted vital energies, and thus keep up the repairs 
of the body, without producing any visible effect on 
the muscular system while it is in a state of rest. That 
the Zodiacal brain does produce this office is show T n in 
the case of idiots, their muscles being very inactive for 
the want of planetary brain to supply the necessary 
current of force to give them strength and activity. 
The Zodiacal brain also supplies the necessary forces 
to the vital organs to sustain them in their labors, 
without any assistance of the gray matter. Should 
the Zodiacal brain become detached from the nervous 
system death would instantly follow, which is the rea- 
son that the central portion of the brain is more vital 
than the outer layers. Any disturbance of the medulla 
oblongata will cause instant death, because the break- 
ing down of its fibrous work shuts off the supply of 
brain force from the vital organs, when the whole ma- 
chinery of the body stops. 

There are two hemisheres of the brain, each posses- 
sing the same number of like sub-divisions, which per- 
form like physical functions, so that each side of the 



186 PLANETARY BRAIN. 

body may be controlled by separate divisions of the 
brain, which make both sides work in harmony togeth- 
er. The nerves, sent out from the right side of the 
brain, cross over to the left side of the body, and each 
half of the brain creates and controls the opposite 
half of the body, which gives balance and poise to the 
entire body. By this arrangement of the brain, one or 
both sides of the body may be put in motion at the 
same time, without interfering with each other. Where 
the organs of time, which control the regularity of the 
movements of the body, are developed the same on 
both sides of the forehead, then each supplies force to 
its side of the body. If these organs are well devel- 
oped, then it will control the actions of the muscles in 
any way desired. Thus it can be seen that the body 
is double, and is composed of two distinct organisms, 
which is further known from the fact that each side of 
the brain produces its side of the body, which gives 
pairs instead of single organs and members. 

On each side there is one eye, one ear, one nostril, 
one leg, and one arm. The mouth is also double, it 
having the opposite half of each jaw like the other; 
the teeth are formed in pairs; the tongue, split length- 
wise in the centre, would produce two halves exactly 
alike. The dual organism of the body is further 
evinced in the internal organs, for there are two lungs, 
livers, kidneys, and a double heart; other internal de- 
velopments might also be classified in pairs. If both 
arms depended on a single sub-division of the brain 
for its motive power, only one could work at a time, 



PLANETARY BRAIN. 187 

and the other must remain at rest; but, since each is 
ruled by a separate sub-division, both can work at the 
same time without interfering with the other; for each 
also has its own mental director to control its every 
movement. To all outward appearances the phreno- 
logical organs and the following named physical divi- 
sions, cerebrum, cerebellum, and the medulla oblonga- 
ta, number all of the mechanical divisions of the brain,, 
or those that have special functions to perform. 

Had not Dr. Mayer, an eminent chemist quoted 
by Dr. Flint in his late work on physiology, by a very 
careful analysis discovered seven layers of brain mat- 
ter, it might be a difficult task to convince the general 
reader, and perhaps would not be a safe experiment to 
inform the physiologist, that a greater number of lay- 
ers yet exist to be discovered in the same way before 
the doctors are familiar with that marvelously con- 
structed organ. These layers cannot be traced out by 
the unassisted eye of the most astute anatomist. It 
must be aided by the finest instruments known to the 
profession. And, even then, they cannot be discovered 
by any plodder. These important discoveries, made 
by Dr. Mayer, were wholly due, he claims, to the pecu- 
liar form of the cells which compose each layer, but 
why they were thus formed the doctor did not deem it 
necessary to inform his co-workers. hi making this 
discovery Dr. Mayer added another feather to his own 
plume, and innocently won a brilliant victory for as- 
trology and spontaneous production. 

Chemical Divisions. — I will cite the reader to the 



188 PLANETARY BRAIN. 

more subtile divisions of the brain, and discuss their 
forces and functions as they are manifested in life. At 
one time this would have been a very unpleasant task 
to perform, since there was no evidence to support any 
statement which might be made concerning the exist- 
ing layers of brain matter; but since the w r onderful 
discovery by analysis has been made by Dr. Mayer, I 
can now proceed with more confidence in my effort to 
establish the fact that many more than seven layers 
exist, and moreover, I shall do what the learned doc- 
tor, however wise and expert he might be in his pro- 
fession, could not do, and that is to explain how the 
chemical layers were produced, and also explain their 
functions which have never been understood. 

Brain Layers. — If their were no planets to affect 
the Zodiacal brain, then each division of the heavens 
would produce the same effect on all brains born at 
the rising of any given division of the Zodiacal belt, 
but since there is a marked difference in all persons 
born at the rising of the Zodiacal division, as the fol- 
lowing will explain: 

The motion of the earth on its axis is necessary, in 
order that the planetary gases may be supplied to the 
Zodiacal brain after birth, so that the sub-divisions 
may be produced, and also the layers thereof; for the 
sub-divisions are composed of layers of brain matter. 
The first day after birth the nucleus of the first layer 
of each sub-division is formed. The second day after 
birth the second nucleus of the second layer in each 
sub-division is formed. The third day the third nu- 



PLANETARY BRAIN. 189 

cleus is formed. And so on till the whole nuclei are 
formed, which are to create all the layers of brain 
matter, after which growth is added to each nucleus 
until the brain is perfectly developed. The number of 
layers of brain matter thus formed cannot be known; 
however, there are as many layers as there are years 
of life; but how many more cannot be told. It is sin- 
gular, but true, that each layer of brain matter above 
described has a vital effect upon the working power of 
the Zodiacal brain which they affect the most, for each 
sub-division of the brain does not affect all of the Zo- 
diacal divisions. The Zodiacal division which creates 
any given sub-divisions and their layers are alone af- 
fected by them. The strength of the sub-divisions and 
their layers are known by the positions and aspects of 
the planets which produce them. These layers produce 
the events of life, and cause them to occur at stated 
periods. The brain layers cannot all work at the 
same time, but each must take its turn in the execu- 
tive department of life, and dispense the vital forces of 
the brain for twelve months, after which time its physi- 
cal functions are never again required for that purpose. 
Each layer, however, must retain the record of all the 
events that occur during its reign of twelve months, as 
business events, sickness, accidents, births, deaths, etc., 
and be able to reproduce them when called upon to do 
so, which act of the brain is called memory. 

That a single layer of the brain rules the events of 
a single year of life is known from the fact that a child 
could not live if the layers must all work at the same 



190 PLANETARY BRAIN. 

time, because they are not formed at birth, and there- 
fore cannot all be present in a newly born infant's 
skull. In fact, the nuclei are not all formed short of 
ninety days after birth, and even then none of them 
are perfectly grown. The organization of the first 
layer determine the events of the first year of life. The 
organization of the second layer, determines the events 
of the second year. The third layer the events of the 
third year of life, and so on. The tenth layer the tenth 
year, the twentieth layer the twentieth year, on to the 
close of life. The positions of the respective planets 
and their aspects to one another each day, after birth, 
determines the mental and physical quality of the 
layers of matter they produce; for no two of them are 
constructed just alike, owing to the planets changing 
theis local and relative positions, thus daily and hourly 
forming new aspects, and supplying new combinations 
of gases for the construction of brain layers. Each 
layer thus produced is strong or weak according to the 
chemical combination composing the nuclei. If the 
combination is harmonious, then the nucleus formed 
will produce good results, and a year of good events 
will be produced by that layer during its reign. In 
order to know the quality and the character of events 
they will produce, and the time when they will occur, 
it is only necessary to know the positions of the vari- 
ous planets on the day the nucleus was formed, and 
the character of the planets which produced it, or them. 
Chemical Layers.— The Moon moves faster than 
the Sun or any of the planets; consequently in passing 



PLANETARY BRAIN. 191 

around through all of the divisions of the Zodiac, she 
must pass all of the planets before completing her re- 
volutions around the Earth. When passing the benefic 
planets, they produce good combinations of gases 
which the Zodiacal brain attract, and utilizes, for be- 
nefic purposes, in forming the nucleus which will 
later on develop into a layer of gray matter. While 
the Moon is passing evil planets, their nuclei which 
will produce evil results will be formed. The gases 
from the Moon and Jupiter are harmonious, and when 
those two bodies are joined together, or are forming 
harmonious aspects, the Zodiacal brain will attract 
their gases and produce strong, active, and health-pro- 
ducing layers, with business producing forces, journeys, 
gifts and social reunions. 

When she passes Venus, the combinations of gases 
thus supplied to the Zodiacal brain is utilized in pro- 
ducing a layer of matter which will bring new friends, 
introductions, social advantages and marriage. 

When the Moon passes Saturn, the combinations 
of gases from those bodies produces a badly organized 
nucleus, and brain cells that store up malefic forces, 
which produce unfavorable events in the years corres- 
ponding with the number of days in which they were 
produced, as ill health, accidents, losses, disputes and 
law suits. Should the Moon pass two planets in a 
single day, the layers of brain matter so formed will 
not be mixed, but they will produce a mixture of events 
during the year corresponding with the day on which 
it was formed. Should she pass Mars and Jupiter on 



192 PLANETARY BRAIN. 

the thirtieth day after birth, then, during the thirtieth 
year of life, severe sickness, would be followed by suc- 
cess in business, gifts, or legacies. 

The above described motions of the Moon are 
called directions. They are of short duration, and 
last but a few months. There are other directions which 
last much longer, consequently much more severe. 

The apparent motion of the Sun is much slower 
than that of the moon, but faster than Mars, Jupiter, 
Saturn or Uranus; therefore in the course of time he 
must pass all of them. He requires eight or ten days 
to pass either of them. These days represent the 
years when the events will occur. The direction of 
the Sun to Saturn causes a depression of spirits, a low 
ebb of life, sometimes ill health, heavy losses, and even 
death, may occur, during the evil transits of the male- 
fic planets. The Sun passing Jupiter brings successes 
for eight or ten years, and especially when Jupiter is 
making favorable transits during this time. Any of 
these directions may occur, early, in middle, or late 
in life, all depending on the positions af the planets at 
the time of birth. 

Should the evil direction occur at thirty, forty-five, 
or sixty years of age, unless the horoscope is very 
strong, heavy losses, serious sickness, or death, will 
follow, because the brain is only a dynamo which is 
kept active by the stellar and planetary forces. By 
the planets changing their positions in the heavens, 
these forces will increase and also diminish in their 
effect in this human dynamo. 



PLANETARY BRAIN 193 

The Zodiacal brain has power to create only so 
many layers of planetary matter. When that is done 
the growth is complete. The farther the layers extend 
from the central brain, the less vitality they possess, 
till finally it runs out altogether. No matter how vital 
they may be near the center of the brain, they grow 
weaker, as they recede from that point, until they are 
able to sustain life no longer, when the mental dynamo 
stops. Even when the full length of the golden thread 
is reeled off, life cannot extend very far beyond the 
century mark. 

Some brains are more vital than others, owing to 
the very favorable maternal and planetary conditions 
which organized them, and will live much longer than 
those less fortunate, but even their years are num- 
bered. 

Thus, by studying the laws of nature, facts are 
snatched from the realm of mystery and the ignorance 
and folly of man is made plain; his duty clearly 
pointed out; his relation and responsibilities to his 
fellows permanently established, and the justice of 
nature extolled. It further proves that the "sins of 
the father" need not be entailed upon the second, 
much less the third, generation; tor, as a child is born, 
so will it be; "as the tree falls so it shall lie." 




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CHAPTER XXI. 



LAW STILL IN FORCE. 

It seems never to have occurred to evolutionists 
that the laws which produced man in the beginning, 
are just as necessary to perpetuate his existence now 
as they were to create him originally, or they would 
not so persistently dwell on hereditary influences, 
parental causes and social environments to explain 
mental and physical effects. How easy it is to believe, 
that after nature produced man, she withdrew her 
forces, and left him in his feeble condition to battle 
with the elements, animal ferocity, and his own, 
the most unkind of all, and thus make the most of 
his very unfavorable surroundings and even claim for 
him the right, and insist on him exercising the power 
of free agency. But how they have veered from the 
direct course of facts. Instead of nature withdrawing 
her forces, she continues to exercise her power with 
the same unabated energy as before, and still the work 
of reproduction goes on, the same as the original pro- 
cess of production, only in a slightly different way. 
Man thinks he is responsible for the existence of his 
species. He does not realize that he is a creature of 
law, and has no more to do with perpetuating his kind 
than he has with producing a tape worm. His repro- 
ductive functions, which nature gave him at the be- 



LAW STILL IN FORCE. 195 

ginning of his life, is simply to preserve the original 
condition which she established at the time the first 
human pair were incubated, and she does the rest. 
If she withholds the seed from woman, or the fructi- 
fying forces from man, they possess no power to gene- 
rate life; but if nature imparts the necessary conditions, 
then children or tape worms may be produced. The 
only rejoinder to be brought against this argument is 
that there are more children than tape worms brought 
to light, and that the worms appear without an effort 
on the part of the producer. 

The animal heat of the mother supplies the germ 
with the necessary warmth, which the earth originally 
supplied to the protoplasm, while the male supplies 
the fructifying forces which the planets originally sup- 
plied to the protoplasm to awaken in the ovum the 
sense of attraction for stellar gases, and thus is life 
generated. But the magnets thus created, not being 
in a position to attract directly from the atmosphere 
the stellar elements, as the egg does, or the protoplasm 
did, they must necessarily obtain them through the 
mother's organism, by adhering to the walls of the 
germ recepticle, and there absorb the necessary ele- 
ments from the mother's brain and blood. Finally, 
after weeks and months of growth, the new life was 
thrust upon the world. 

Why Children differ from each other and 
their Parents.— At conception the ovum contains all 
the elements belonging to both parents at that time. 
But the blood or the brain of the parents never possess 



196 LAW STILL IN FORCE. 

exactly the same combination of stellar elements 
which they had at the moment of birth, for the 
reason that their respective divisions of the brain 
cannot collect the same combination of gases all the 
time, owing to the different positions occupied by the 
ever changing planets at different times; therefore, 
they cannot supply the original combination to the 
embrio at, nor after, conception takes place, hence the 
difference. The laws of nature, and not the develop- 
ment of the parental brain, only to a limited extent, 
determines just what combination of gases the embrio 
shall receive at any given time; but, since the planets 
were holding a different position at the conception of 
the child from what they were at the time of birth of 
the parents, it must necessarily differ from them as 
much as the combination of elements which compose 
them differ from those which compose it. The quality 
of the parental brain has something to do with govern- 
ing the time of conception, consequently with the time 
of birth, under the following circumstances: The 
mother who has a large well developed brain when 
under favorable planetary influences, will not con- 
ceive until the planets are in good position to produce 
good results, hence good children are born to her. 
Conception at such a time is due to the fact that at 
some previous time a vital ovum was formed out of a 
good combination of gases, and therefore would not 
impregnate until it received the required combination 
to elements to produce a certain effect in the child. 
Then, after conception, the mother being under 



LAW STILL IN FORCE. 197 

the influence of the benefic planets, they continue to 
supply their gases while the embrio evolves until it 
develops into a strong healthy child. Another ovum, 
formed at a different time out of another combination 
of gases, would require different influences to produce 
impregnation. There is no denying a tendency toward 
heredity, but it is only a tendency and not a law. If 
it were possible, nature would occasionally develop in 
the child the counterpart of one of the parents; but 
she never does. But what is more puzzling to the 
casual observer is that no two children are just alike. 
Even twins are different; but if born very near the 
same moment, they are very much alike, if of the same 
sex. In that case, they would be very unlike in ap- 
pearance and the events of life. When the sex is the 
same their events are generally the same. In three 
cases have I known twins to die at the same time. 
1st, by drowning, 2nd, by the same bullet, which 
passed through their bodies while standing near to- 
gether, and the third from disease. I have read of 
twin sisters marrying twin brothers, and of twin 
brothers marying at the same time. 

The visible cause of children resembling and dif- 
fering from their parents in form, features, and events 
of life, is due to the Zodiacal and planetary laws, and 
explained as follows: 

A father, who was born at the rising of the sign 

Leo, would be large and light complexioned. Should 

he have a son born at the rising of the same sign, the 

on would resemble the father in personal appearance r 



198 LAW STILL IN FORCE. 

but not in mental qualities. Such a birth might easily 
occur, since the sign Leo rises once a day. 

Again, a father might be born at the rising of the 
Sun in the sign Leo, which would make him large, 
light complexioned, with light curling hair, with large 
bones and a strong frame. As the sun rises in Leo, 
from July 24 till Aug. 24, a child might be born to 
this father during that period of any year. In that 
event the child would resemble his father. In so far 
as the influence of the Sun could effect the develop- 
ment of the brain, he would be like his father; but if 
born at other hours, the child might not resemble the 
father at all. A father might be born at the rising of 
the planet Jupiter, in the sign Gemini. Jupiter re- 
quires twelve months to transit through that sign, 
which occurs once in twelve years. Then, if a child 
is born to that father, during his 24, 36, 48, or 60 years, 
at the rising of that division it would resemble him in 
personal appearance, but they might widely differ 
otherwise; for. as the position and their aspects of the 
planets differ in their respective horoscopes, just in 
that particular would their brains differ in their de- 
velopment and mental activity. The influence of the 
Moon at the time of birth has a great deal to do with 
forming character. If she was very weak, by her posi- 
tion and aspect to other planets, at the birth of the 
father, she might also be weak in the horoscope of the 
child. Her motion is very rapid therefore, by nature 
hastening or retarding the birth a few days to accom- 
modate the hereditary influences so that the child could 



LAWS STILL IN FORCE. 199 

be born when the Moon was in a similar condition as 
when the sire was born; consequently the child would 
be much like its sire in that particular. 

Children resemble their parents, because they are 
born at the rising of the same Zodiacal sign, and that 
some of the planetary influences are the same in their 
respective horoscopes. All persons who are born at 
the rising of Leo, or any other sign, resemble in per- 
sonal appearance, and sometimes we find them so 
nearly alike that they might be taken for twins in- 
stead of strangers. This is the reason we sometimes 
see such a marked similarity existing between strangers 
and why we can see in every town some one who re- 
minds us of friends or acquaintances of former days 
in distant places. 

A mother might be born at the rising of the sign 
Libra and have one or more daughters born at the 
rising of the same sign. In that case they would all 
markedly resemble each other. 

If given parents were born when benefic planets 
Jupiter, Venus, or the Moon, were in the midheaven, 
they would be very fortunate in business matters con- 
nected with the general public; and also in their social 
relations, should a child be born to them at a time 
when one or more of the benefic planets were in the 
midheavens. In its horoscope it would resemble its 
parents in the foregoing particular, and, like them, 
would be very fortunate in business matters and in 
social relations. 

Now, while the midheavens in the horoscope of 



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LAWS STILL IN FORCE. 



the parent is strongly fortified by benefic planets, let 
us suppose that the seventh house of the horoscope 
which rules their marriage, was badly afflicted by 
Saturn. In that event they would be very unhappy 
in their domestic relations: this would be as strong a 
point for evil as the other is for good. 

Now. supposing the mother should come under 
malefic planetary influences some months prior to the 
birth of another child, the forces thus received would 
produce an evil effect in it, and would cause the worst 
elements in the parents to develop in the child, which 
is the domestic nature. When the day arrives for the 
birth to take place, nature has designed that the house 
of marriage in the horoscope should resemble that of 
the parents, therefore the hour of birth is postponed 
until the Earth has reached a point which will place 
one or more malefic planets in the seventh houses of 
the child's horoscope; consequently, the domestic or- 
gans will remain undeveloped, and the child, in his 
later years, will be very unhappy in his domestic rela- 
tions. Again, supposing that while nature is selecting 
a lime, which will make marriage very unfavorable for 
the child, it is not necessary, according to heredity, 
that the division of the brain which rules the social 
and business successes should remain undeveloped; 
but nature, in selecting the hour to produce the neces- 
sary afflictions in the seventh house, it so happened 
that Mars must be elevated to the tenth house, from 
which nosition he causes losses and troubles and a 
want of enterprise and public spirit; consequently, he 



LAWS STILL IN FORCE. 201 

would not only be unfortunate in marriage, but in 
business also. His friends would think he inheri 

his domestic troubles, but they might have to go back 
a generation, or so, to explain the cause of his business 

failure. In another child, when the influences con- 
troling the mother were favorable and the inherent 
forces were trying to create strong public tendencies in 
the child, it might be, in order to do so, that the benefic 
planets would fall in the seventh house. In that case 
the child, contrary to parental forces, would be fortu- 
nate in his domestic affairs. Again, supposing a very 
ordinary couple should come under very powerful 
benefic planetary influences, which they sometimes do, 
and during which time a son is born. In such a case 
nature would select the most favorable hour of the day 
for the birth of the child, and the result would be a 
superior brain-development, not necessarily like its 
father, mother or any of its ancestors, but perhaps 
superior to any of them, which in some instances is 
the case. 

No matter how brilliant the parents may be, they 
cannot produce healthy, happy, fortunate children 
when under the influence of malefic planets, since they 
have no power to impart their natural talents to their 
offspring; they can only transmit that which they re- 
ceive from the planets during gestation, the forces 
simply pass through the brain, over the nervous 
system and out through the pores of the skin. Nature 
can usually select an hour for the birth when the 
planets can produce a child much like its father or 



202 I.AWS STIIX IN FORCE. 

mother, but never exactly like either of them. Thus 
it can be seen that the physical tendencies may be to 
reproduce parental talents and traits of character, but 
when the heavenly hosts are arrayed against it, blood 
will not tell. 

Great mental powers do not indicate great re- 
productive powers. If any difference exists, the re- 
verse is the case. If the quality of the offspring or 
the entire absence of children from the homes of noted 
men and women is any evidence, there is enough 
to prove that assertion. Where are the descendants 
of the great warriors, Alexander, Cromwell, Napoleon, 
Wellington, Lafayette, Jackson, Grant and Lee. 
Orators — Webster, Douglass, Thacl Stevens and Henry 
Clay. Authors — Shakespeare, Byron, Longfellow, 
Bryant, Dickens. Philosophers — Ptolemy, Coperna- 
cus, Kepler, Newton. Inventors — Stevenson, Fulton, 
Hoe, Whitney, McCormic, Morse, Howe and Good- 
year. Reformers — Luther, Pain, Bennet, Darwin, 
Kant and Voltaire. Preachers — Even the saintly 
mouthpieces of "Jehova" show no better results in re- 
generation. What can be said for the offsprings of 
Penn, Cotton, Matthew, Peter Cartwright, Surgeon, 
and the famous Beecher family. Queen Victoria is a 
famous woman but an unvenerable mother. Teny- 
son's mantle did not fall on the shoulders of any of 
his progeny. Fields left children to disgrace his 
name. 

Again, where are the ancestors of the famous men 
and women; they cannot be traced back to pinicles of 



LAWS STILL IX FORCE. 203 

rhen, for what is all this : ancestorial 

blood, royai strains or evolution? It is a healthy, lung 
exercise, but nothing more. It is neither scientific, 
philosophical Dor true. Children may be inferior to 
their parents, but they are always equal to the laws of 
their creation, or they may be superior to their parents, 
but never superior to the laws which created them; 
they are only superior to the incubator which pro- 
tected them during their evolution from the ovum to 
human life. But may the good stars ever shine on 
that animated machine. 



CHAPTER XXII. 
NATURAL LAWS. 



The forces which rule the universe are familiarly 
called Natural Laws, and notwithstanding the famili- 
arity of men with them, nevertheless they are strangers 
conversing with scientists in unknown tongues. These 
laws embrace all the forces which produce the many 
aspects observed in nature. When a strange pheno- 
mona appears in any one of the three kingdoms, it is 
said by scientists to be the result of a natural law; 
w r hich explanation is satisfactory to all. But so far 
as they have yet been able to enlighten the world 
they only know the laws by their effects, for they can- 
not tell what will be the character of the next 
phenomona produced by the same laws. 

It has been said that fools can find effects where 
philosophers fail to explain causes. Nevertheless, 
causes exist, and the only way to discover them is to 
diligently search for them, and not refuse to look be- 
cause some one laughs. They can laugh, but fools 
never patent inventions, discover obscure facts nor 
apply great principles, yet who will deny that the 
laughing, sneering public does not to a marked degree 
rule the scientific world? When the time comes that 
the "common herd" will laugh at all men who do not 
believe in Astrology, than every man holding a 



NATURAL LAWS. 205 

public position of importance, will subscribe for 
the leading Astrological journal, and proudly tell 
how often they have had their horoscopes read. 
The Poet Lowell wrote: 

Truth forever on the scaffold, 
Wrong forever on the throne. 
But that scaffold weighs the future. 

Physical Endurance of Atoms. — Atoms of mat- 
ter, like their combinations which enter into the 
structure of the human body, can only work for a 
limited time in maintaining the physical structure 
when their vitality becomes exhausted; they are re- 
leased from their duties, and other atoms take their 
places at the proper time to sustain the physical or- 
ganism. The deserting atoms at once become negative 
forces and doubtless return to the place of their origin 
to recuperate their lost energy, for matter never dies. 
The loss of energy may be accounted for by a separa- 
tion of their component elements under those peculiar 
conditions, but glasses are not yet strong enough to 
reveal all of the excentricities of gases, each of which 
is now supposed to be a single element, but they 
may be discovered to be composed of many, the 
union of which gives them life-sustaining forces, and 
their separation life-destroying powers. 

The energy of individual atoms of matter is limit- 
ed, consequently they must have rest, therefore when 
they relinquish their hold on the human body, other 
atoms must be within easy reach to take their places. 

Fresh atoms find access to the body by means of 



206 NATURAL LAWS. 

food, water and air. The heavenly bodies supply the 
necessary force to sustain the wearing away tissue, but 
elements absorbed from the food taken into the stomach 
are dead matter until they are vitalized by the stellar 
gases, after being carried by the blood to the lungs. 
Food elements cannot be utilized by the brain until 
they are vitalized at the lungs, when they become life- 
sustaining forces and are sent from the brain over the 
nervous system to all parts of the body. That the 
vitalization of the food elements is necessary, is known 
from the fact that strong men will starve to death for 
want of oxygen when well supplied with plenty of good, 
wholesome food, if they are confined in an airtight 
room. Men will live more clays in the open air with- 
out food than they can hours confined in a closed 
room with the very best the market could supply. 

There are certain parts of the human body thatwill 
waste away and are again restored, which changes may 
often occur during a lifetime without producing any 
local or permanent injury. In fact, these changes 
constantly take place within the human anatomy; 
but since the waste is being restored, the effect is 
not noticed except at certain times when the brain is 
unable to make the necessary repairs. 

The parts of the body subject to changes are the 
nerves, fats, blood, muscles, etc. The fat man may 
grow lean and the lean man may grow fat, while large 
quantities of blood may be taken from the veins with- 
out serious injury to the general health of the body, 
the nerves will increase and contract in length, the 



NATURAL LAWS. 207 

nails and hair will continue to grow, teeth will wear 
out and disappear. There are other parts of the body, 
however, who will not change from a natural cause; 
when once produced they remain the same till the close 
of life, except in case of disease. Some of these parts 
are the brain, lungs, liver, heart, kidneys, bones, and 
viscera. If, from disease or a wound, the lungs are 
partly destroyed, the wound may be healed and health 
restored, but the lost tissue cannot be replaced. Part 
of the brain may be removed by violence and the 
wound healed, but the cells as they originally existed 
cannot be reproduced. The internal organs are sub- 
jected to the same unvarying law, for they cannot 
waste away even by starvation; their tissue remains 
the same till death. 

The foregoing facts go far to prove that the in- 
ternal organism is not undergoing the constant change 
we have been led to believe that it is, wdiich leads to 
the conclusion that the combination of gases, which 
nature employs in the construction of the vital organ- 
ism, possesses a greater degree of vitality than those 
which entered into the construction of other parts of 
the human anatomy. No doubt, the atoms, orginally 
employed, continue in their places until their vital 
forces are exhausted, when their functions cease and 
death follows. 

The combination of gases received from some of 
the Zodiacal divisions possess a greater degree of vital- 
ity than others do, for which reason life continues 
longer in one than in another case. The fact that 



208 NATURAL LAWS. 

the brain-cells, after being destroyed, cannot be restor- 
ed discloses the sophistry of the phrenologist, who 
teaches brain cultivation by constant study. If nature 
cannot restore lost tissue when removed by violence 
then study will not increase the size of the natural 
brain, nor add one single cell to its original growth. 
Study does not increase but exhaust brain-force; it 
does not destroy cells, but study exhausts the fluid 
which they supply. When the brain is strong, the 
cells are active and, therefore, kept full. In such cases 
study will not affect the organism, but if the brain 
cannot obtain from the blood a sufficiency of the vital 
fluids to supply the necessary force for the operation 
of the entire machinery of the body; then study will 
exhaust an undue proportion of the vital forces, and, 
in consequence thereof, the entire physical system will 
suffer. 

The ceil forces at work in two given brains 
may be compared to two streams of water flowing 
through two pipes of the same size. One pipe is forced 
by a very small, and the other by a very great head of 
water. The first is sufficient to keep the pipe full with 
a constant stream flowing through it but not enough 
to give any great amount of force, while the latter 
sends a stream of water through with force enough to 
run a factory. Both pipes are equal in size, but the 
difference is solely due to the weight of water at the 
head. So it is with brains of equal size and possessing 
equal ceils; they will produce different results for the 
reason that one has the power to keep its cells full to 



NATURAL LAWS. 209 

overflowing, while the other has only force enough to 
sustain a feeble current of life; hence the difference in 
their mental and physical powers. The stronger brain 
can work overhours with little fatigue and a short rest 
for recuperation, while the weaker brain is always weak 
and sluggish. It has frequently been argued that the 
brain can be developed by constant study, because the 
muscles are increased in size and strength by labor; 
but perhaps the philosopher, who advanced that notion, 
was not aware of the fact, that the muscles are sup- 
plied with vital fluid and physical forces from the 
brain cells, and that every ounce of increase in their 
size and every pound of strength added to them is ob- 
tained at the expense of the brain, therefore it exhaust 
in proportion to the amount of matter supplied to the 
building up of the tissue of the muscle. 

Muscle cell may be created by brain force through 
exercise, but mental and physical exercise always ex- 
hausts it for the time being at least, but lost ener- 
gies are again restored by rest and inhalation. After 
violent exercise the brain, having expended its force, 
its cells are refilled by rapid respiration, and as soon 
as they are refilled the breathing becomes normal. 
If the physical exercise has been violent and pro- 
longed, the brain cells become so exhausted that they 
cannot recuperate at once, therefore cannot supply the 
full flow of force required to keep up the strength, 
when the muscles become lax and tired. This fact is 
made plainer by the experience of a debauchee 
whose brain was under the influence of strong drink 



2IO NATURAL LAWS. 

for the space of 24 hours, and during which time he is 
dreaming horid dreams and raving in delerium, thus 
exhausting the contents of his brain cells, and reducing 
his vital forces; but all of this time lie is prone on his 
bed with all his muscles in a relaxed state, a condi- 
tion necessary for rest and recuperation, and therefore 
he should become strong and active on his feet again 
as soon as he is sober enough to stand; but. on the con- 
trary, his muscles are scarcely able to support his 
staggering body because his brain force has been ex- 
hausted by intense and violent thoughts, which re- 
quires hours for it to recuperate sufficiently to support 
the usual strength of the muscular system. 

Nature completes the human machine at the 
moment of maturity, beyond which point of develop- 
ment man has no power to extend nor to change it 
except by violence. The body is ruled by the brain 
and not the brain ruled by the body. There exists no 
will-power, physical strength, nor mind independent 
of the brain. If the brain and internal organs could 
be reconstructed every seven years, as we have been 
instructed by very high authority that they can, then 
life would continue forever on the same principal as 
that of the old lady's socks that would last a lifetime, 
saying that she could knit socks that would last a 
lifetime by refooting them every winter and retoping 
the same every other winter. 

If new brain cells are continually forming, their 
strength could not grow less, consequently they would 
support the current of vitality all' the time, and, since 



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the body is supported by the brain, it could not wear 
out. If the renewing process of the body is incessantly 
going on, there is no reason why life should not con- 
tinue indefinitely; but it never does. We have all 
heard of a Methusala, the wandering Jew and tibi- 
tian monstrosity, but none of them have been caught 
and placed on exhibition to demonstrate their exist- 
ence or to prove the presence of the inexorable forces 
in nature, which were necessary to produce them, or 
as freaks that live independently, or in defiance of 
natural laws; therefore it can safely be said that life 
is never prolonged beyond the extreme limit of ordinary 
existence. When one or more of the divisions of the 
brain fail in its functions, life goes out of the entire 
encephalon, be it a Jew, Gentile, or a Mahatma, and 
he w T ho says that he can prolong life by any artificial 
means, beyond a reasonable limit, is not a profitable 
companion or councilor. 

The brain is composed of layers, and all have 
their physical duties to perform, and when each has 
served its time in executing the physical functions of 
the body then life goes out- When once set in motion 
the brain never stops, except by violence, until some 
part of it is worn out, and when it does stop from 
natural causes, man has no power to infuse life into 
its wornout cells, for the atoms of matter, which were 
enlisted in the service of life at its beginning, have 
served out their time and cannot be induced to re- 
enlist, while other atoms are not permitted to take 
their places since the Zodiacal brain was created, prior 



212 NATURAL LAWS, 

to birth, in nature's secret laboratory and cannot be 
returned to the hands which created it, for repairs. 

For the above reasons man grows old and infirm, 
woman becomes wrinkled and fades. The rose of 
youth departs from the cheek of the blushing maid, 
the luster from the sparkling eyes. The step of pride 
loses its firmness, the mind becomes enfeebled, memory 
fleas away, the animated machine refuses to continue 
its labors and stillness reins supreme, in the once ac- 
tive citadel of life. 

THE HOROSCOPE OF JUSTICE RATHBONE. 
The Founder of the Order of the K. of P. was born 
at the rising of the Sun, Jupiter and Mercury in the 
sign Scorpio, which gave him a large head, active 
brain and force of character. Scorpio, rising, gave 
him a large, stout body, endowed with strength and 
activity. The Sun and Mercury, rising, gave him 
force of character, magnetic power and social influence. 
Mercury and the Sun, rising in the sign Scorpio, made 
him studious, secretive and thoughtful, which are pre- 
requisite to the successful practise of Medicine, for 
which Mr. Rathbone would have been especially 
adapted. Jupiter, joined to the Sun, gave him a 
strong social development. Venus, in the house of 
friends, increased that development; consequently, his 
mind led him into the social channels, which caused 
him to study man's social and fraternal relations to 
each other; but this desire alone would not have ac- 
complished Mr. Rathbone's object of brotherhood. 



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He was born. like Lincoln and Darwin, when Mercury 

and Uranus were receiving a trine influence from each 
other, which gave him originality of thought, inde- 
pendence in action and a large degree of intuition. 
This magnetic strength, coupled with his mental ac- 
cuteness, gave him the power to thrill the fraternal 
world while rehearsing the products of this master 
mind, and made his name famous the world over. 



HOROSCOPE OF THOMAS A. EDISON. 

T. A. Edison was born Feb. 11, 1846, one year 
earlier than the date given for his birth. This I 
know to be a truth from the fact that Mr. Edison 
could not be the genius he is if born in '4j; but 
Feb. 11, '46, describes him as he is. 

He was born at 3.30 p.m., at which time Scorpio 
was rising, and he is therefor ruled by Mars, which I 
find in sign Taurus, joined to Jupiter, their influenc 
makes him self-confident, self-willed, firm and de- 
termined. He aspires to leadership and takes quiet 
pride in being famous. 

The Moon, at Mr. Edison's birth, was in the mid- 
heaven, which has a tendency to give popularity and 
public notority. The Moon, Mars and Jupiter, in trine 
to each other, also gives him force, energy and a de- 
gree of popularity, the influence and support of which 
is to give fame; but they also show r a large, strong, 
active brain. I further find Mercury in sextile to 
Uranus, which gave to Mr. Edison originality of 



214 TH[ E HOROSCOPE OF THOMAS A. EDISON. 

thought, independence of action and an inquisitive 
and inventive turn of mind. 

Mr. Edison was not made for a plodder: he is a 
natural investigator. 

He takes nothing for granted;he likes to wrestle with 
the unknown and unseen things of nature. Had Mr. 
Edison been born 50 years sooner, before electricity 
was so well known, he doubtless would have studied 
chemistry or some mechanical inventions. Like Dar- 
win and Lincoln he was born when Mercury and 
Uranus were in friendly aspect to each other. Uranus 
gives scientific and inventive ability; but, in other 
particulars, the strength of the horoscope determines 
his bent of mind. 

I use the foregoing horoscope to show that a 
benefic influence of Mercury to Uranus always gives 
a mind that will branch out in a new and strange 
field of operation or investigation, because when the 
brain is large and active it always produces something 
new and strange, if not startling. The size and con- 
dition of the brain can be known by the planets. 
There are many persons born, when Mercury and 
Uranus are in friendly aspect to each other, that ac- 
complish nothing above the ordinary, because their 
brains are small and inactive. 



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